How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
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Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence-which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren’t linked clearly enough to the words they’re actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.
Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Karrot Animation.
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After being in the attic for 5 years, Grandpa finally fixed the broken chair!
damn gramps was in the attic for a long time...or was he?
+txvoltaire The chair that had been sitting in the attic for 5 years, was finally fixed by Grandpa.
+SmilingWhileInsane Grandpa was 5 years old when the chair fixed the attic.
+txvoltaire The grammatically correct way of interpreting this is to understand that being in the attic is attributed to the Grandpa. The noun that is being modified should always follow the clause ending with a comma.
You sir deserve too comment!
Upon seeing the first headline, I thought it meant the chocolate bunny assisted the thief in robbing the town.
Me too
That's the point :). It's why modifiers mostly hurt your writing :).
My what deadly chocolate bunny 🤣
The animator really loves drawing cute buffalos
And "arrows."
and game graphics
Don’t forget the spatulas
@@tingsteph I kind of forgot everything, this is a 4 year old comment!
It's the buffaloing buffalo from Buffalo!
They need to bring back to Buffalo buffaloes in their future videos!!!
+masterimbecile I agree
+Don'tWatchTheWorldBURN now buffaloing the thief named Buffalo
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
For real, I love the Buffalo buffaloes.
In particular, news headlines can look like that because in journalistic writing, you tend to avoid the passive voice. I can almost guarantee that if I gave that first modified headline, "Town with world's largest chocolate bunny robbed by thief", to my editor, she'd hand it back and tell me to make it active again.
Thief steals world's largest chocolate bunny from town (Better yet, leave off "from town")
@@haroldcampbell3337, or "Theif robs from the town with the largest chocolate bunny" if the theif and the chocolate bunny are unrelated, but the town and bunny are
@@haroldcampbell3337 Nice one, but the thief didn't just steal one bunny from the town, he robbed the whole town for god's sake!
@@elenazhang9321 I love that emoji at the end how did you add that
@@UditENG-xi4pu this one? If you click that smiley face at the left bottom corner when you input comments, you will see it at the very top under "youtube emoji" and a lot more
"Twins reunited after 18 years in checkout line."
😂😂😂
This can mean multiple things, as you already know. I will explain them now.
1: The twins reunite after they spent 18 years waiting in a checkout line.
2: The twins haven’t been together in 8 years, and they finally reunited in a checkout line.
I originally had a third one but it didn’t make much sense
@@joshuabradford8372 what was the third one
@@themiracleman I can’t remember
@@furanrabbits p
2:35 Chocolate bunny-thieving robbers rapidly attract... That made me laugh. This was supposed to correct the mistake, but it created another one: are the robbers made of chocolate or the bunnies?
+Kingdom of Stornia - Development
Chocolate bunny-thieving robbers that aren't made of chocolate...
_Onlooker outrage rapidly attracted to robbers stealing chocolate bunnies_
Chocolate-bunny-thieving robbers rapidly attract ...
or
Robbers of chocolate bunnies rapidly attract ...
Nope it didn’t fix the mistake.
*Chocolate bunny-loving thieves rapidly attract* the outrage of nearby onlookers
In this one you could still read in the bold.
The thieve’s actions attracted the onlookers or the onlookers rapidly outraged?
And sometimes the object of of the sentence appears to be a modifier or a “unintentional modifier”
"police found safe under bed"
@Super Greyflash you referring to the hidden safe or the safe police?
Boi I've just come across the most underrated comment of the year. Made me crack up tbh, just imagining that weird picture
Your sentence is implying, the police is secured under the bed.
Determiners can help a lot here.
I suppose Freud would say: _"Sometimes a pixelated arrow is just a pixelated arrow."_
+Paul Keefer Well, Freud was kind of edgy.
+Paul Keefer ??????
+Nic wow what is a pixelated arrow
+John M Unfortunately, there is no record of Freud ever having said that. The phrase first came to attention several years after Freud's death. I remember reading somewhere that it was a punchline from a British comedian's act. Unfortunately, I can't find the place I read that nor remember the comedian's name, so caveat lector.
Oops. I thought HTML worked here.
I'm pretty sure they make the headlines ambiguous on purpose to make the reder wonder and actually read.
+Altrantis That's part of it, I'm sure. But is probably more common that reporters are trying to get across all the important words across while using minimal space.
Effing clickbait!
Oh my gahd.
why is my comment here I posted it on an extra credits video
*OR* Give us a good laugh 🙋 . Either way 🤷.
Ambiguous arrows are suspiciously shaped.
Ambiguously-shaped arrows are suspicious?
@@lijahneal837 *facepalm* the look like the...male eggplant(i had to say something)
I love how they added an obvious reference to one of their other videos on lexical ambiguity. It had buffalo too. (and the beautiful animation)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Love the animation! It made the whole concept more emphasized.
I have fun watching this video. The narrator is very engaging, DRAMATIC and funny, I love it, love it. The video was very helpful and simple to understand.Thank you so much, very well done!!!
I love this animator!
Judging by the arrows, the modifiers aren't the only things dangling.
"I shot an elephant in my pajamas."
The pajamas shot in my elephant were worn by me.
How he got in my pajamas I shall never know.
This is used as a clickbait in youtube video descriptions by giving a double meaning to the title. Thanx a lot! Good info vid.
These are very common grammar issues. Good review on using fixing modifiers.
Oh those are the Buffalo buffalo!
The buffalo are back :D
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This is so perfect. I got into an argument with my dad about this yesterday. We were travelling back to the USA and had to declare the amount of goods we were bringing back through. The sentence, don't quote me, went along the lines, "Report the amount of total goods you are bringing back into the country, including presents or gifts purchased abroad." I took that as to mean, the amount I left with as well as what I was coming back with as it said "total" and my dad was convinced it only applied to items purchased abroad. I put down a guess as to how much I was bringing back and my dad put 0.00. We both got through ok, but I feel as if that modifier at the end made me correct and him incorrect but maybe it is just poorly worded overall. I would also like to reiterate that the sentence I provided is not verbatim but a vague recollection.
Your dad was absolutely wrong. "Including" is an indicator that the "total" included OTHER things as well.
Or do it like analytical languages like modern vernacular Chinese where modifiers, both adverbial and adjective, have regular and expected places that are just right before the verb and the noun to be modified respectively, the downside of which is that you have no way to use adjective clauses after a noun, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to write in Chinese long sentences like this one or those in German in a relatively clear and unambiguous way.
I love these grammar videos! Keep making them!
Man I love your videos on language!
Note that @1:16 the sentence is switched from active voice to passive voice. But since the focus is on the town robbed (and not the thief responsible) this is acceptable.
Dangling modifiers are easily understood within context and often without much difficulty with out it.
Wait, i thought that robbers rob and thiefs steal.
The last sentence could much more easily be fixed with commas; for example:
“Robbers, who steal chocolate bunnies rapidly, attract the outrage of onlookers.”
Or “Robbers, who steal chocolate bunnies, rapidly attract the outrage of onlookers.”
And of course if it’s modifying the robbery, you could change it to “Robbers who rapidly steal chocolate bunnies attract the outrage of onlookers.”
Not really.
The first sentence is a jarring comma splice, and the placement of the comma is just absolutely wrong. I mean your sentence shows that the robbers are stealing the bunnies in a rapid motion, and it has nothing to do with the outrage of the onlookers. Not only this but encasing the middle info between commas is also wrong; commas are only used to encase a piece of information that is not necessary to be included and is extra. If "rapidly" is modifying "attract", why are we separating them?
The second sentence has the same mistake; the middle info is not extra; therefore, needn't be encased in commas.
The third sentence also does not make sense in this context. "Rapidly" here is used to describe that the onlookers were "quickly" enraged; it has NOTHING to do with HOW the robbery took place. Unless of course, the purpose IS to describe a rapid robbery.
@@LunasofficialMum How about "Robbers who steal chocolate bunnies attract the outrage of onlookers rapidly"?
If I were a detective, this would be the most helpful RUclips video I would have seen! Even though I'm not a detective at the moment, it's still intriguing!
Meanwhile there are people still stumbling over "they're," "their," and "there."
Oh wow 😄 I actually had a whole bunch of these sentences during my work training. I remember one of them too.
" Man shot cow with a knife"
Can we get more videos in this style?
you'll never know when those bunny-wielding robbers might strike. until then, i will rue the day this video will be proven wrong. hehehe
Since the online classes started my English teacher started to use video like this to replace our lectures. I never enjoyed lectures as much as now 😆
This is really entertaining, and a great lesson!
Thank goodness for this. I sometimes get confused with news headlines because of this. So its not my fault, its theirs
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Song reminds me of donkey kong n64 when you trade in the blueprints for golden bananas....
This can be quite a lengthy discussion, seeing as the said modifiers are complex and really require their own explanations: words (adjectives), phrases (infinitive, participial, prepositional) and clauses (relative). Not to mention, appositives (a type of noun) can as likely be misplaced.
I think, when one has gotten acquainted with the different types of modifiers, he/she would have an easier time grasping the video. There are a ton of material online about such topics.
Yay! My earliest video!
2:24 ITS THE BUFFALOS FROM YOUR SENTENCE WITH ONE WORD VIDEO!
"Town with world's largest chocolate bunny robbed by thief." Wait a minute, a single thief robbed an entire town?
YaDig didn’t think of that
You know you’re in trouble when you see the buffaloing Buffalos and you aren’t even at Buffalo
Many people on the internet should watch this video...
It's funny how I have a term paper to write on Modifiers. Thank you for this video. ❤️❤️
That's the most inappropriately shaped arrow I've ever seen.
For Squinting modifiers, you could add “could” to any point of the modifier so it will relate to the specific word.
“Robbers who steal chocolate bunnies (could) rapidly attract the outrage of onlookers.”
“Robbers who steal chocolate bunnies rapidly (could)attract the outrage of onlookers.”
2:17
The video's quality increased the viewer's attention.
I loved the buffaloes cameo!
*Thank you! This is Wattpad-helpful!*
This isn't exactly the same as what the video explains, but there are sentences that can be made so that placement of a comma or period decides the meaning. These sentences are made to demonstrate the importance of punctuation. One example is this:
"Execute him now you shall not wait for me."
Real headline here in the Ph 🇵🇭 :
"Iñigo Pascual surprises fan with leukemia"
What a terrible surprise
"Having robbed the bank in the record time, it was possible to make off with the town's chocolate bunny as well" This is correct since it is a conditional statement in the past tense, but it does not specifically state whether the robber did "make of with the town's chocolate". You could convert it into a non-conditional statement by saying "Having robbed the bank in the record time, the robber made off with the town's chocolate bunny as well". This statement is absolute in meaning, rather than the correction given in the video which is show the robbers perceptions.
I love this video it's awesome.thank you
“Enraged cow injures farmer with Axe”😭
Yes please...these modifiers in textbooks confuse me all the time. And they are international texts so i expect better. Now I am sitting here, thinking if i may have introduced a misplaced modifier😅
The title can actually have more meanings as it’s unclear what is meant with “with”. It could be that the town was robbed by the robber using a chocolate bunny or that they did it together with it.
The sentence at the 2:45 mark suggests that the robbers themselves were chocolate.
I find it funny that you decided to include the Buffalo buffalo, now the Buffalo buffalo buffalo the theif.
We've become the most aggresively inarticulate generation to come along, since, you know... a long time ago -Taylor Mali
Amazing animation. 👍🏻👍🏻
The buffaloes are literally threatening him with a spatula
Amazing animation!
I like how they are using a same animation theme for videos about grammar.
2:25 buffalo!
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Dare2BFlat you forgot capitalization and period
"Chocolate bunny-theiving robbers"
oh no the chocolate is stealing all the bunnies
oh no
2:39 So, the bunny thieves are made of chocolate?
I started laughing so much when all those arrows appeared.
Help. The fixed sentence at 1:12, "Town with world's largest chocolate bunny robbed by thief." It doesn't necessarily mean that the thief stole the world's largest chocolate bunny, right? It could also mean that the thief stole something else from the town that just so happens to have the world's largest chocolate bunny, right?
this is good to know but so many headlines not to mention article titles do this too often
Well, we can say that 0:53 is a DANGLING modifier too.
1:30 o god that one drives me mad - also in my native Italian 🙄
Thank you for giving it a name.
English is my second language; It was incredibly difficult to learn. It appears it is hard to learn for natives too LOL.
02:17 - A simple comma, put before or after the word rapidly, will solve the problem.
+kpacuBua No it wouldn't. That would be a comma splice, unless you were to change the meaning of the sentence.
"Robbers, who steal chocolate bunnies rapidly, attract the outrage of onlookers," suggests that all robbers rapidly steal chocolate bunnies.
"Robbers, who steal chocolate bunnies, rapidly attract the outrage of onlookers." does the same thing.
"Robbers who steal chocolate bunnies, rapidly attract the outrage of onlookers" is incorrect because if you take out the prepositional phrase it becomes a command: "Robbers, rapidly attract the outrage of onlookers." ("Robbers" takes on a different function in the sentence; instead of being a subject, it's the person being addressed in a command.)
This is the problem with relying too heavily on commas - they change the meaning of the sentence, and not always in the way you want them to.
+ThePaperFlowers Hun, I've been a teacher ever since I can remember. A comma (indicating a pause between parts of a sentence) solves the problem. Nobody would ever interpret the meanings you are suggesting in your comment.
+kpacuBua Nope, Paper Flowers is right on all counts. You argue that "nobody would ever interpret [those] meanings," but one has to assume a writer means exactly what they say or communication falls apart-that's the whole purpose behind syntactic unambiguity.
Just because you can prefix your statement with a patronising pet name and claim to have no memory of your childhood doesn't mean you can't be wrong.
+woodfur00 Buddy, she's like a 4, no need for white-knighting? I never said there should be a comma after "Robbers". I stand by words.
+kpacuBua What? Seriously, I don't understand anything you just said.
Nice! I love this! J’adore Ted-Ed!
I love those buffalo!!
Wow, I am learning.
"Town with world's largest chocolate bunny robbed by thief"
Passive Voice: consider revising
My ninth grade English class just finished with misplaced modifiers yesterday.....
When a buffalo takes out a spatula you're screwed
And while you do revise the headline to "Town with world's largest chocolate bunny robbed by thief", in writing headlines, it's always better to write in active voice.
When they fixed the first example, they turned it into a passive sentence. So, basically, they're just changing it from one problem to another.
Squirrel gets mad after being hurt by man with axe.
*This just in: Four mountain bikes have been reported stolen by the police.*
So wait , Did the police steal the mountain bikes Or report them stolen 🦧❓ 📖✍
"Robbers who steal chocolate bunnies attract the outrage of onlookers rapidly" works, doesn't it?
Your fix to “Chocolate Bunny-Thieving Robbers” doesn’t work either; does chocolate refer to bunnies or robbers?
Gray Fullbuster chocolate clearly modifies bunny
It's the buffaloes from the buffalo buffalo buffalo video. And they brought their spatulas. ( 2:24 )
Hahaha!
That was awesome!
Armed with a chocolate bunny :'''D haha! "You better watch out, or I'll fire my caramel at you!" hahaha
Town with world's largest bunny robbed by thief. Was the town robbed, or the bunny?
2:23 the bunffalos 😊😊
I like the buffalo Easter egg
1:31 DANGLING!
I fail to see how the news editor managed to maintain grammatical law and order by having claimed that the bunny-thieving robbers made out of chocolate attracted the outrage of onlookers.
Is it [grammatical law] and [order] that were maintained? Or was it grammatical [law and order] that was maintained?
Yay, it was the Buffalo buffaloing Buffalo from Buffalo!
After stealing chocolate police arrest robber
Okay, Thank you. Now, Why is it bad to end a sentence with a preposition?
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put!
This is the sort of English I will not put up with!?
I guess it's just because it's confusing to read.... To my knowledge it is not grammatically incorrect, but some people might say otherwise. (Also, a sentence shoudn't end with two forms of congugation side-by-side. Try putting quotes around the actual sentence in the sentece you're trying to say. I.e.- "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put!" "This is the sort of English with which I will not put up with!"?
I love how this whole video centers around a thief with an obsession with chocolate bunnies.