again why sentence start with verb? A smile was on the Mieko Nagaoka, when he completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100. Mieko Nagaoka wore a smile, when he completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100. Happiness was evident on Mieko Nagaoka, when he completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100. I don't understand, why is in English grammar subject-matter at the end of the sentence?

Well, it makes the sentence have more excitement. To say that, "A smile was on the Mieko Nagaoka, when she completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100." its a bit dull. You know that Mieko did something good, so, you wont really be surprises that she did something amazing. Same thing with the other two. It makes SEANCE what you wrote, but its dull. Now adding the part: "Mieko Nagaoka wore a smile," at the end of the sentences, makes the reader think. "Who did this? Who was 100 years old? What was her expression when she completed the 1500-meter swim?" Then, after that comma, it gives you those answers: "Nieko Nagaoka wore a smile." Hope this helps both of you. :)

whats a dangling modifier?

A dangling modifier is an ambiguous or misleading construction of the following type: “Walking down the street, the neighbors’ gardens looked beautiful.” We don’t know who’s walking down the street, but it certainly isn’t the gardens. These are usually a careless mistake but are sometimes done deliberately, for humorous effect.

At 1:22 in the video, why was options c and d taken out? Was it because it was to descriptive when talking about the smile on Mieko's face?

I'm guessing that you're talking about B and D. These options were removed because they make the reader think that the first part of the sentence was referring to the smile or the happiness. Mieko swam the race, not the smile/happiness.

Option C and D seems to be the same answer but why did you choose C not D

Because in D, it seems as though the smile was the first person to complete 1,500 meters at age 100. To make the sentence clear, it is best to identify the person that's being spoken about

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Unit 11: Lesson 3

Writing: Grammar

Writing: Modifier placement — Example

Name: Writing: Modifier placement — Example
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LuboDrinka
Posted 7 years ago. Direct link to LuboDrinka's post “again why sentence start ...”
again why sentence start with verb?
A smile was on the Mieko Nagaoka, when he completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100.
Mieko Nagaoka wore a smile, when he completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100.
Happiness was evident on Mieko Nagaoka, when he completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100.
I don't understand, why is in English grammar subject-matter at the end of the sentence?
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- Colin
  Posted 7 years ago. Direct link to Colin's post “Well, it makes the senten...”
  Well, it makes the sentence have more excitement. To say that, "A smile was on the Mieko Nagaoka, when she completing the 1500 m freestyle swim at age 100." its a bit dull. You know that Mieko did something good, so, you wont really be surprises that she did something amazing. Same thing with the other two. It makes SEANCE what you wrote, but its dull. Now adding the part: "Mieko Nagaoka wore a smile," at the end of the sentences, makes the reader think. "Who did this? Who was 100 years old? What was her expression when she completed the 1500-meter swim?" Then, after that comma, it gives you those answers: "Nieko Nagaoka wore a smile."
  Hope this helps both of you. :)
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Japroz Saini
Posted a year ago. Direct link to Japroz Saini's post “thanks, this really clear...”
thanks, this really cleared my doubts on modifier placement.
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hanesh kumar
Posted 4 years ago. Direct link to hanesh kumar's post “whats a dangling modifier...”
whats a dangling modifier?
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- Muhammad Asghar
  Posted 3 years ago. Direct link to Muhammad Asghar's post “A dangling modifier is an...”
  A dangling modifier is an ambiguous or misleading construction of the following type:
  
  “Walking down the street, the neighbors’ gardens looked beautiful.”
  
  We don’t know who’s walking down the street, but it certainly isn’t the gardens. These are usually a careless mistake but are sometimes done deliberately, for humorous effect.
  (4 votes)
luis.calzada123
Posted 7 years ago. Direct link to luis.calzada123's post “After the description and...”
After the description and the comma, the person's name should come after? Does this work for other sentences? I'm little confused on this.
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- megheon
  Posted 7 years ago. Direct link to megheon's post “then what are the other t...”
  then what are the other type of examples/questiones??
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Yoonkitty
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What does this mean?
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pinksis
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this video was good though couldn't it have been either the last or second to last?
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- Daniel Shively
  Posted a year ago. Direct link to Daniel Shively's post “It couldn't be the last o...”
  It couldn't be the last one because after the comma, the subject should be the first word, in this case, Mieko Nagaoka
  (1 vote)
lulloa
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At
1:22
in the video, why was options c and d taken out? Was it because it was to descriptive when talking about the smile on Mieko's face?
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- Jonathan Kiener
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  I'm guessing that you're talking about B and D. These options were removed because they make the reader think that the first part of the sentence was referring to the smile or the happiness. Mieko swam the race, not the smile/happiness.
  (4 votes)
A.mujeeb& ramatallahi uthman Afolarin
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Option C and D seems to be the same answer but why did you choose C not D
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- Royal Blue
  Posted 6 years ago. Direct link to Royal Blue's post “Because in D, it seems as...”
  Because in D, it seems as though the smile was the first person to complete 1,500 meters at age 100. To make the sentence clear, it is best to identify the person that's being spoken about
  (3 votes)

Video transcript

- [Instructor] Having become the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim at age 100, a smile was worn by Mieko Nagaoka. So the way it's written right now, it makes it seem like a smile, a smile was the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim at age 100, which doesn't make much sense. Let's just think about what's going on here. When you read this, when someone is reading, when someone's reading, I'll do this in a different color, when someone is reading this part, I'll underline in red, having become the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim at age 100, and then there's a comma, your brain is expecting that the first thing you read is what was being described, the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim. But then you see a smile, so it looks like they're talking that the smile was the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim, but we, of course, know that they were not talking about a smile, we're talking about Mieko Nagaoka. So this second part right over here, I want it to start with Mieko Nagaoka was wearing a smile, maybe. So I definitely wanna change it. I definitely wanna change it. So let's see, having become the first person to do all this stuff, happiness was evident. Well, no, now it seems like happiness was the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim, so I don't like that choice. Having become the first person to do all this stuff, Mieko Nagaoka wore a smile. Yup, that feels good 'cause the first thing you see, that was what was intended to be the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim at age 100. So I'm liking this one. And then this last choice, it still has a smile, the way it's written it makes it seem like a smile was the first person to complete the 1500-meter freestyle swim, so I don't like this one either. So I feel very good about this choice.

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