Be careful with modifiers

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Adjectives and adverbs (including their respective phrases and clauses) will help make your sentence/s look nice and clear in meaning.

They are called modifiers and they can achieve the desired results if placed correctly. If not, you may have misplaced/dangling modifiers when your sentence/s will become awkward or you may have ambiquity.

Look at the following headline of a news item in a popular national English daily:-

Groups stage protest against costly petrol in Ipoh ("in Ipoh" being an adverb phrase, a modifier).

Costly petrol is not only found in Ipoh (city) but the whole country.

To reflect its intended meaning, the headline should have been “Groups stage protest in Ipoh against costly petrol” or “In Ipoh, groups stage protest against costly petrol.”