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Modifiers can add comments on the time, place, manner, or quality of a thing or an action.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The Duke of York, his brother, who was regarded with hostility by the Whigs Modifiers should come, if possible, next to the word they modify.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

Modifiers, adjective and adverb, word, 49; phrase, 52 ff.; clause, 54-55; used to secure unity, 202; misplaced, 209-210.

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose

Adjective and Adverbial Modifiers may consist simply of adjectives and adverbs, or of phrases and clauses used as adjectives or adverbs.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

Exercise 204—Misplaced Modifiers Sometimes a sentence is not clear because a modifier does not stand close to the word it modifies.

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose