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Are the modifiers in these sentences correct or misplaced? Read the article Excuse me, have you misplaced your modifier? to help you out.

1. Did Eve really give her grandfather, for his birthday, an Avril Lavigne concert ticket?
2. The computer system almost cost $2,000, but Michel had enough money saved from his fire-eating gigs to pay the bill in full.
3. Place the plate in front of the diner with the meat, not the vegetables, facing the person.
4. Alice decided to, after a particularly bad week both at work and at home, visit her brother for the weekend.
5. “Acting simply is not valued by the philistines who grant Academy Awards,” Mimi snorted.
6. We had almost thrown all our snowballs when our fort was charged by two frenzied redheads from the opposing team.
7. She loaded the bottles and cans into her husband’s new Porsche 911, which she planned to leave at the recycling centre.
  

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