Practice with Misplaced Modifiers*

1. The king returned to the clinic where he had undergone heart surgery in 1992 in a limousine sent by the White House.

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2. The orderly confessed that he had given a lethal injection to the patient after ten hours of grilling by the police.

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3. He promised never to remarry at her deathbed.

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4. The recordings were all done at the studio of the late Jimi Hendrix named Electric Ladyland.

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5. The old Marlboro ads depicted a man on a horse smoking a cigarette.

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*These practice exercises are from Diana Hacker's The Bedford Handbook, 5th edition: Instructor's Annotated Edition. Bedford Books: Boston, 1998: 213-24.

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