WCS 230, Resumptive and Summative Modifiers

True

False

A resumptive modifier

A summative modifier

A free modifier

An ordinary appositive phrase

True

False

It restates a word from the main clause.

It should be a noun

It substitutes relative clauses in the sentence.

It adds an informative description to a word.

It restates a word from the main clause.

It includes the addition of a new word

It can summarize a whole clause.

It uses nouns or noun phrases only.

A real danger in this digital revolution is the potential it holds for dividing society, a society that will divide into two camps, the techno-elite and the techno-peasants, a society where a "wired" few will prosper at the expense of the masses.

A car that ran through the red light figured in a terrible smashup, a tragic accident in which the wayward vehicle first hit an incoming sedan, creating a domino effect that made the sedan roll over and slam on a parked van, which in turn hurtled toward eight joggers having breakfast at a sidewalk café.

Most textbooks only teach students the basics, a problem that will become more apparent when those students move into business and find they lack the more advanced skills they need.

In the last twenty years, the world has moved from the industrial age to the information age, a sociological event that will change forever the way we work and think.

During their presentation, she was extremely worried and anxious, worried about the grade, and anxious about the presence of mistakes.

I’m tired, more tired than I had ever been before.

We are slowly reaching graduation, a goal we had anticipated for four years of our college life.

It was American writers who found a voice that was both true and lyrical, true to the rhythms of the working man’s speech and lyrical in its celebration of his labor.

wings, shaped so smoothly and perfectly

wings, wings so smooth and so perfectly shaped

wings that are shaped so smooth and perfect

wings, shaped in such a smooth and perfect manner

wings, wings having been shaped smoothly and perfectly so

requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems to be inevitably doomed

which require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seems to be inevitably doomed

life-styles that require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seem inevitable

life-stlyes requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods,seems inevitably doomed