A student wrote the following sentence. Keiko handed her castle project to her teacher that was late. How does the misplaced modifier cause confusion in the student’s sentence?

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A student wrote the following sentence.

Keiko handed her castle project to her teacher that was late.

How does the misplaced modifier cause confusion in the student’s sentence?

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high-school

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It could cause the reader to think that the teacher was late and not the castle project.

Amwinter answered Jan 8, 2022

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