"The stadium where the football team plays was renovated in 2015." Can we also write the sentence in this form: "The stadium, where the football team plays, was renovated in 2015." ?

Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the meaning changes really slightly between the two. I don't think you'll get asked to do anything like this on the SAT, but I'm not completely sure. In the first sentence, you're identifying the stadium as the one "where the football team plays". In the second, when you put commas around that phrase, you make it nonessential to the logic flow of the sentence. This means that the stadium cannot be identified by the football team, and instead "where the football team plays" is just a descriptor of the sentence. In the first sentence, you might be talking about multiple stadiums and their renovations. In the second sentence, there is only the one stadium. It appears to me like a more nuanced version of that vs. which, which the SAT does test.

How are we supposed to identify if a question is related to modifier placements? could someone please tell what are the markers of modifier placements?

When you're supposed to *revise* a sentence in the Writing Section , or *replace* an underlined word with another noun or even an adjective.

Astounded, the sunken ship they had encountered was inspected closely by the divers as they swam closer.

This sentence is grammatically off because of the modifier "astounded". You would expect this to modify a person or animal, but instead it is placed next to the ship in the sentence. To fix this, we would have to place astounded close to the divers, because it's supposed to modify them. Here's one way this could be done: Astounded, as they swam closer, the divers closely inspected the sunken ship they had encountered.

The book designer had done a great job: the title's intricate lettering stood out from the page:_ due to the stunning bright blue he had chosen. Choose 1 answer: NO CHANGE page— page page;

Here, I would just plug each punctuation into the sentence and see if it fits. The colon doesn't really work because the second clause isn't a clarification or anything of the first, and having two colons in one sentence isn't good. On the SAT, the dash serves the same function as the colon with introducing explanatory parts, so it can't be right either. The semicolon connects two independent clauses, but the latter piece of the sentence is not an independent clause so the semicolon cannot work. That leaves us with no punctuation at all.

What does it mean when it says "if the noun isn't underlined move the modifier"?

The underlined portion is what the test asks you to edit. This article just says then, that if you see a misplaced modifier error on the test and the question asks you to fix the noun, you can't move the modifier around to fit. You must instead change the nouns to fit the modifier. Conversely, if the modifier is underlined, you have to change it to fit the noun and not the other way around.

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Vlera Mehani
Posted 3 years ago. Direct link to Vlera Mehani's post “"The stadium where the fo...”
"The stadium where the football team plays was renovated in 2015."

Can we also write the sentence in this form:
"The stadium, where the football team plays, was renovated in 2015." ?
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- Hecretary Bird
  Posted 3 years ago. Direct link to Hecretary Bird's post “Both sentences are gramma...”
  Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the meaning changes really slightly between the two. I don't think you'll get asked to do anything like this on the SAT, but I'm not completely sure.
  In the first sentence, you're identifying the stadium as the one "where the football team plays". In the second, when you put commas around that phrase, you make it nonessential to the logic flow of the sentence. This means that the stadium cannot be identified by the football team, and instead "where the football team plays" is just a descriptor of the sentence. In the first sentence, you might be talking about multiple stadiums and their renovations. In the second sentence, there is only the one stadium.
  It appears to me like a more nuanced version of that vs. which, which the SAT does test.
  (16 votes)
Harsh Tambi
Posted 3 years ago. Direct link to Harsh Tambi's post “How are we supposed to id...”
How are we supposed to identify if a question is related to modifier placements? could someone please tell what are the markers of modifier placements?
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- Divyansu Bhalotia
  Posted 3 years ago. Direct link to Divyansu Bhalotia's post “When you're supposed to *...”
  When you're supposed to revise a sentence in the Writing Section , or replace an underlined word with another noun or even an adjective.
  (6 votes)
ELEINA
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Astounded, the sunken ship they had encountered was inspected closely by the divers as they swam closer.
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- Hecretary Bird
  Posted 2 years ago. Direct link to Hecretary Bird's post “This sentence is grammati...”
  This sentence is grammatically off because of the modifier "astounded". You would expect this to modify a person or animal, but instead it is placed next to the ship in the sentence. To fix this, we would have to place astounded close to the divers, because it's supposed to modify them. Here's one way this could be done:
  Astounded, as they swam closer, the divers closely inspected the sunken ship they had encountered.
  (7 votes)
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The SAT Writing and Language Test focuses on placement of the following modifiers
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olivia.kulka
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The book designer had done a great job: the title's intricate lettering stood out from the page:_ due to the stunning bright blue he had chosen.
Choose 1 answer:
NO CHANGE
page—
page
page;
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- Hecretary Bird
  Posted 2 years ago. Direct link to Hecretary Bird's post “Here, I would just plug e...”
  Here, I would just plug each punctuation into the sentence and see if it fits. The colon doesn't really work because the second clause isn't a clarification or anything of the first, and having two colons in one sentence isn't good. On the SAT, the dash serves the same function as the colon with introducing explanatory parts, so it can't be right either. The semicolon connects two independent clauses, but the latter piece of the sentence is not an independent clause so the semicolon cannot work. That leaves us with no punctuation at all.
  (4 votes)
Torshay Ewing
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What does it mean when it says "if the noun isn't underlined move the modifier"?
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- Hecretary Bird
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  The underlined portion is what the test asks you to edit. This article just says then, that if you see a misplaced modifier error on the test and the question asks you to fix the noun, you can't move the modifier around to fit. You must instead change the nouns to fit the modifier. Conversely, if the modifier is underlined, you have to change it to fit the noun and not the other way around.
  (4 votes)
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