{"id":6143,"date":"2013-10-13T00:12:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:12:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:12:44","slug":"what-are-modifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/what-are-modifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick and Simple Guide to Modifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Confusing-business-writing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1386\" title=\"Confusing business writing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Confusing-business-writing-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Confused looking at screen\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Modifiers are words or phrases that provide additional descriptive information about the subject addressed within a sentence. Modifiers are used to inject life into sentences and make them much more interesting for the reader.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sarah fell over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sentence is grammatically correct and great for people who want to get straight to the point. However, if it were to be used in a creative story or novel, it wouldn\u2019t exactly win any Pulitzer prizes.<span id=\"more-1809\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how modifiers could potentially make the sentence a lot more interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clumsy Sarah, who was proudly wearing a new pair of high heels, suddenly tripped and fell over on the cafeteria floor, shrieking loudly as the tray of food she was carrying went everywhere, causing a real mess in front of half the school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The use of modifiers has added additional detail to the information communicated and has made the sentence much more interesting for the reader. Modifiers can be both adverbs and adjectives:<\/p>\n<p>Adjective: <strong><em>clumsy<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Adjective clause: <em><strong>who was proudly wearing a new pair of high heels<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Adverb: <em><strong>suddenly<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Adverb clause: <strong><em>as the tray of food she was carrying went everywhere<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prepositional phrases can also act as modifiers:<\/p>\n<p>Prepositional phrase: <em><strong>on the cafeteria floor<\/strong><\/em>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modifiers are words or phrases that provide additional descriptive information about the subject addressed within a sentence. Modifiers are used to inject life into sentences and make them much more interesting for the reader. Take a look at this sentence: Sarah fell over. This sentence is grammatically correct and great for people who want to &#8230; <a title=\"A Quick and Simple Guide to Modifiers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/what-are-modifiers\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Quick and Simple Guide to Modifiers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}