Grammar and Language Workbook

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Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 12
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Grammar
9. Practicing a stress-reduction technique doesn’t mean a person won’t have no more
headaches, either.
10. Biofeedback, yoga, and other relaxation techniques don’t provide no guarantees.
11. However, if one method doesn’t appear to be of no help, another can be tried.
12. Not all headaches are caused by muscle tension.
13. Migraine headaches don’t have no one known cause.
14. A migraine headache doesn’t usually come as no surprise to its victim.
15. A migraine is often preceded by an “aura” consisting of symptoms such as blurred
vision or no tolerance for loud noises.
16. Migraine sufferers often can’t participate in no everyday activities while they have a
headache.
17. Another type of headache, the cluster headache, often appears during sleep.
18. Cluster headaches are sometimes preceded by the sufferer seeing flashes of bright lights.
19. Most people take painkillers but don’t bother to pinpoint no cause for their headaches.
20. There simply aren’t no easy cures for this common problem.
 Writing Link
Write three sentences using a variety of double negative sentences. Then rewrite
the sentences with correct, but equally expressive, usage.

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Unit 9, Using Modifiers Correctly
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Grammar
Lesson 66
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Place modifiers as close as possible to the words they modify in order to make the
meaning of the sentence clear.
A 
misplaced modifier
modifies the wrong word or seems to modify more than one word
in a sentence. To correct a misplaced modifier, move the modifier as close as possible to
the word that it modifies.
MISPLACED: I want to buy a computer for my mother with a modem.
CLEAR:
I want to buy a computer with a modem for my mother.
MISPLACED: At the picnic we served strawberry mousse to everyone in paper cups.
CLEAR:
At the picnic we served strawberry mousse in paper cups to everyone.
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