Question

Use the drop-down menus to identify the modifiers and the words being modified.

Everyone recognized Tara's yellow coat .
Patrick heard his mother speak loudly .
They all agreed that Jenny's dad made the best hamburgers .

Answer 1

Answer: Do not listen to the other guy who has left those answers

Explanation: I checked and all of his answers are incorrect. The correct answers are

Yellow=modifier

coat=word being modified

speak=word being modified

loudly=modifier

best=modifier

hamburgers=word being modified.

I have checked these answers and I got all of my questions correct. Have a nice day everybody.

Answer 2

1. Everyone recognized Tara's yellow coat

Modifier: coat

Word being modified: yellow

2. Patrick heard his mother speak loudly

Word being modified: loudly

Modifier: speak

3. They all agreed that Jenny's dad made the best hamburgers

Modifier: hamburgers

Word being modified: best

Step-by-step explanation:

A modifier is simply a word or phrase that adds extra meaning or gives additional information about another word in the same sentence.

Therefore, the modifier and the word it modifies almost always are together in the sentence.