Sometimes a sentence is not clear because a modifier does not stand close to the word it modifies.
Wrong: I can't even do the first problem.
Right: I can't do even the first problem.
Change the order of words in the following sentences, placing each modifier as closely as possible to the word which it modifies. Some of the sentences are incorrect because they contain split infinitives. (See [Exercise 92].)
1. I only waited for him about ten minutes.
2. She stood at the window, trying to close it with a troubled face.
3. The city is supplied with water from cold springs which flow nearly a hundred million gallons of the purest liquid that ever burst from the earth, daily.
4. The famous S. F. ice cream is made in this factory containing fifty per cent pure cream.
5. A man should not be allowed to cast a vote, who cannot read and write.
6. After taking the medicine for a short time, the appetite is improved, and a desire is created for food, that has not existed before.
7. In real value, this magazine towers head and shoulders over all others to the woman who is in charge of her home.