A Dangling Element--one that modifies nothing--must be avoided.
When a phrase beginning with a preposition, an adverb, or a conjunction relates to or modifies a preceding portion of the sentence, a comma is unnecessary if the parts are closely connected in sense.
The fact that each receives the attention appropriate to his place in the system of beings in no way modifies the Great Heart, which spontaneously prompts to all good acts.
Though he suspends no physical force, the action of man has produced an order of events in nature different from that which would have taken place without it, but by balancing one against the other he modifiestheir action.
This produces a new series of events, which occasions a more rapid disintegration, and modifies the whole of the results which follow.
There is heat or caloric, however, which directly counteracts attraction and singularly modifies the results.
Thus He assumes a function high above that of any prophet or teacher: He not only reveals duty, as a lamp casts light upon the compass by which men steer; but He modifies duty itself, as iron deflects the needle.
The truth is, that while natural laws remain fixed, human intelligence profoundly modifies their operation.
The desire, indeed, modifies the perception, rendering our feeling more intense, as any other emotion would do, that has equal relation to the object.
Fortunately for the race, the skeptic, if silenced, modifies the strength of the belief he attacks and in the course of time even they who have defended begin to shift from it and it becomes refuted.
How deeply the fear of death modifies the life of people it is impossible to state.
If she is not brilliant, and she is not, she collects the plans of her associates and chooses and modifies until she is ready with her own plan.
Rounding the upstream edge even to a small extentmodifies the discharge.
I do not for a moment deduce that a system or a form of government has any direct connection to the construction of a house; but it modifies greatly in the planning of a house for the reason that a plan of a house evolves a national idea.
The fact that the form of government of a state modifies the architecture of the dwelling house is also exemplified by the house of England and France of the sixteenth century.
Literary distortion does not much affect archives (though instances of it are found in most charters of the eleventh century); but it profoundly modifies all literary texts, including the narratives of historians.
The progress of the direct sciences sometimes modifies the results of historical interpretation; a fact established by direct observation aids in the comprehension and criticism of documents.
Above all he modifies and transforms the traditional Neo-Platonism, into a thoroughly Persian system of thought which, not only approaches Plato, but also spiritualises the old Persian Dualism.
When a nation modifies the elective qualification, it may easily be foreseen that sooner or later that qualification will be entirely abolished.
Liberty Of The Press In The United States The influence of the liberty of the press does not affect political opinions alone, but it extends to all the opinions of men, and it modifies customs as well as laws.
The novelist selects or invents his story, portrays from actual life or creates a number of characters, constructs or modifies his plot, and unfolds the movement toward a predestined end.
An acquired trait is one gained by exercise; it modifies the whole organism.
It may be complex, modified by many contradictory stimuli, but whatever else modifies it, a clear personal determination seldom does.
Defn: That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
Qualified indorsement (Law), an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument.
It implies a special relation to God's plans, and it modifiesthe character of this apparently vindictive prayer.
Here the clause, which fought for their rights, is an adjective clause introduced by the pronoun which, and it modifies the noun party, which is the object of the verb supported.
An adjective clause is a clause used as an adjective+, and, hence, always modifies a noun or some word used as a noun, such as a pronoun or a participle.
The phrase, of strength, modifies the noun men, just as the adjective strong modifies the noun men.
By connecting these two statements with the conjunction when, we have made of the clause, we are united, a dependent clause, it modifies the verb phrase shall win.
When an adjective denoting one or more than one modifies a noun, the adjective and the noun must agree in number.
You mean the large house by the river, yet the phrase by the river modifies and describes the house quite as much as the adjective large.
In this sentence the clause, who have become class-conscious, modifies the noun men, and is introduced by the relative pronoun who.
In the second sentence how modifies the adjective large and introduces the question.
An adjective clause is a clause used as an adjective and hence always modifies a noun or pronoun.
An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, an adjective or another adverb.
Here the first as modifies tall and is used as an adverb; the second as is a conjunction connecting the subordinate clause you are, with the principal clause.
In the sentence, He is bodily perfect, but mentally weak, the adverb bodily modifies the adjective perfect and the adverb mentally modifies the adjective weak.
Maury estimates that the hot water stream which flows from the Antilles in a northernly course towards us displaces and modifies a fourth part of the waters of the Atlantic.
But the plutocratic civilization is much better than it should logically be, bad as it is; for the personal equation constantly modifies it, and renders it far less dreadful than you would reasonably expect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modifies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
