2.  a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies / describes  Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences.

4.  Correct the error by placing the adjective next to the noun it modifies. Riley ate a cold dish of cereal for breakfast this morning.

5.  The adjective cold modifies cereal.

6.  An adverb is a word that changes or qualifies the meaning of a verb, adjective, other adverb, clause, sentence or any other word or phrase  How? In what way?, When? Where? To what extent?

8.  Haley ate the lunch she made slowly.  Haley slowly ate the lunch she made.

11.  Miss Geiger said on Monday she would return our essays.

12.  A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that is not clearly and logically related to the word or words it modifies.

13. Now the sentence means that I was looking toward the west.

14.  Correction Method #2 :  Change the dangling modifier phrase to a subordinate clause, creating a subject and verb.  Leave the rest of the sentence as it is.

16. Some examples provided by: http://www.towson.edu/ows/moduledangling.htm