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Editing Exercises: Advanced

Grammar

The following exercises allow you to test the grammar skills you have
learned in Chapters 19 through 21 . The exercises focus on

misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, parallel structure, and verb

shifts.

Editing Exercise 1 Misplaced

Modifiers, Dangling Modifiers, and

Parallel Structure

Underline the misplaced and dangling modifiers and parallel structure

errors and correct them in the answer lines that follow the paragraph.

6 parallel structure errors 4 dangling and misplaced modifiers

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Stress is a normal response to change, good and bad, in people’s
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lives, and everyone nearly experiences stress. Eustress (from the
Greek root eu, meaning good or well) is stress in response to a

positive event such as going on vacation, to win the lottery, or

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