Misplaced Modifiers

Restaurant Grammar

1. A comma splice walks into a restaurant, it has a meal and then leaves. 

When two independent clauses are connected by only a comma, they constitute a run-on sentence that is called a comma-splice.

2. A dangling modifier walks into a restaurant. After finishing a meal, the waiter asks it to leave.

Substitute the words "danging modifier" with the word  "man" - now re-read the sentence.

Hmmmm, did the waiter ask the man or the meal to leave?

A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause which says something different from what is meant because words are left  out. The meaning of the sentence, therefore, is left "dangling.") Also called a misplaced modifier.

3. A question mark walks into a restaurant?

Think "Fiddler on the Roof" and read again.

4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a restaurant.

5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a restaurant, eating to eat.

    (gerund = ing   /  infinitive = to ______ )

6. The restaurant was walked into by the passive voice.

7. Three intransitive verbs walk into a restaurant. They sit. They eat. They leave. 

  (In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb that has no direct object.)