Tense Consistency Exercise

• The second reason why I am in college is I want to complete my dream of becoming a nurse. Why I have this dream is because when I was young, my grandmother always GOT sick and went to the hospital, also my relatives WERE very busy with their jobs, so if my grandmother GOT sick, I HAD to stay at hospital to take care her. USUALLY, when someone gets sick their mood is very bad, but sometimes I saw that the nurses DID NOT TAKE OF care the patientS very well.  They WERE not very nice to the patients. Maybe they DIDN’T know when the patients were in a bad mood.  From that time, I WANTED to become a nurse to do by best to take care of patients. 

•                   Though it is very hard to become a nurse in United Stated. However, I will work hard to make my dream come true. If I want to become a nurse the only way it fulfill my dream is to go to school. Therefore, I want a college education because I WANT to complete my dream to become a nurse try my best to take care of patients.

Modifiers

Adjectives

Adjective + Noun

• the college student

• the Private School

• a disadvantaged child

• larger classes

• a six-year-old child

• An IQ test

Adjective Clauses

• The school, which is located by the river, is a good school.

• The school that has quotas is an affirmative action school.

Adjective Phrases

• The school near the river is a good school.

• The ideal location for a college is in a small town.

Adverbs + Verbs

• He studies hard.

• He learns quickly.

• He hardly studies.

Adverb + Adjective

• The students studied very hard.

Adverb + Adverb

• He progressed quite slowly.

Adverbial Phrases

• My dad takes a brisk walk before breakfast every day of his life.

• My grandmother was born in an old house on the plains of northern Nebraska.

• She promised to meet him for lunch next Tuesday.

Rule

• Modifiers go as close as possible to word they modify.

Misplaced Modifier

• Charlotte brought the bicycle to the repair shop that she bought.

• Charlotte brought the bicycle to the repair shop that she bought.

• Charlotte brought the bicycle that she bought to the repair shop.

Misplaced Modifiers

• The student finished the test with the long hair.

Misplaced modifiers

• The student finished the test with the long hair.

• The student with the long hair finished the test.

Misplaced Modifiers

• John walked his dog with the flu.

Misplaced Modifiers

• John walked his dog with the flu.

• With the flu, John walked his dog.

Misplaced Modifiers

• We saw a car in front of the store that was red.

Misplaced Modifiers

• We saw a car in front of the store that was red.

• We saw a car that was red in front of the store.