A few days ago
Amir

What are the grammatical errors in the two following phrases?

1- the prettiest girl in our class with long brown hair and brown eyes

2- venomous snakes with modified teeth connected to poison glands in which the venom is secreted and stored

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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i’m going to ignore the fact that they are not sentences, because you called them phrases in the question.

the problem is that the modifying phrases are dangling. they are not next to the noun they are modifying and hence the meaning is unclear.

in the first sentence, it sounds like the class has long brown hair and brown eyes, not the girl.

in the second sentence, the venom is secreted and stored in the teeth, but it sounds like it’s saying that happens in the glands.

see what i mean, jelly bean?

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A few days ago
Just Me
Both of them contain misplaced modifiers

1. In this sentence who has long brown hair/eyes the class or the girl? It should read “In our class the girl with the long brown hair and eyes is the prettiest or The girl with the long brown hair and eyes is the prettiest one in our class.

2. Same problem plus an incomplete sentence – where is the venom..in the teeth or the glands? Venomous snakes, with modified teeth, which are connected to poison glands where the venom is secreted and stored….

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A few days ago
Bad Kitty!
1. dangling participle .. phrase implies that the class has long brown hair and brown eyes.

2. not sure, since the venom is secreted by and stored in the glands, not the teeth. I don’t see a problem with this phrase, unless you need a comma before “in which.” This would be a punctuation error, not a grammatical error.

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A few days ago
Dragon’sFire
1, The prettiest girl in our class, is a girl with long brown hair, and brown eyes.

2, Venomous snakes with modified(modified, wrong word)

fangs connected to poison glands, in which the venom is stored and secreted.

teeth is also wrong word, fangs, is right.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
they both are incomplete sentences first off
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A few days ago
Anonymous
Both have no predicate verbs.
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