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A. Ambiguous reference Faulty: She told my sister that she was wrong. Gee hit John and Tom hit him. Can you correct them? B. Implied antecedent: Obscure: As she was greatly influenced by her history teacher, she chose it as her major. In Dreiser’ s Sister Carrie, he describes a penniless girl’ s way to success. He was knocked down by a bicycle, but it was not serious. How shall we correct them? (3) Dangling and misplaced modifiers A. Dangling modifier Dangling: To get up early, the clock was set at six. After correcting all the mistakes, the second draft of the paper was much better than the first. Although seriously ill, the boss made her work ten hours a day in the hot workshop. How shall we correct the mistakes? Dangling: To appreciate the English language, a lot of reading must be done. Although only a small boy, my father expected me to do a man’ s work. A painting attracts the visitor’ s eye on the east wall. B. Misplaced modifier Misplaced: Nanjing University has many well known professors wellknown at home and The Japanese mountaineer sent us the full story of his rescue from Tibet. I bought the hat at a small county store which cost $. Misplaced: You can call your girl friend in Beijing and tell her about my taking you out to dinner for just sixty cents. The teacher returned to his office after a long illness on Monday. How shall we improve these? Misplaced: I saw a man with a dog who has flees. I saw a man on top of the hill with a telescope.