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

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 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.

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

 The adjective cold modifies cereal.

 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?

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

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

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

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

 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.

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