Incorrect: The panel was unable to discuss the matter completely owing to lack of time.

(completely
modifies discuss, but is placed next to words that it cannot modify.)
Correct: The panel was unable to completely discuss the matter owing to lack of time.
Incorrect: Students who seek the advice of their mentors often can improve their performance. (often
can modify either seek or improve. Its wrong placement has created a meaningless
sentence. This error is called a squint modifier)
Correct:
Correct:

Students who often seek the advice of their mentors can improve their performance.
Students who seek the advice of their mentors can often improve their performance.

Incorrect: They reported that Veerappan, a dreaded dacoit, had been arrested on the six oclock news.
is a bad sentence.
Correct: They reported on the six oclock news, that Veerappan, a dreaded dacoit, had been arrested.
is a clear and unambiguous sentence.
Correct: On the six oclock news, they reported that Veerappan, a dreaded dacoit, had been arrested.
is another good sentence.
Misplacement can also occur with very simple modifiers, such as only and barely:
Incorrect: She only grew to be four feet tall.
Revised: She grew to be only four feet tall.
late and lately
A handful of adverbs have two forms, one that ends in -ly and one that doesnt. In certain cases, the two
forms have different meanings:
Correct: He arrived late.
Correct: Lately, he couldnt seem to be on time for anything. (lately means recently)
and yet again is this correct?
Some adverbs act as connectors within a sentence. Words like, however, nevertheless, therefore fall in this
category. Sentences in the test are sometimes based on their use.
If he has nothing new to say day after day, then I am not attending his lectures.
I have told him times without number that I will not tolerate his pranks, and yet again he has gone and
done it.
At the extreme edge of this category, we have the purely conjunctive device known as the conjunctive
adverb (often called the adverbial conjunction):
He is a good speaker; nevertheless, he is the most nervous person in
the GD.
I love these B-Schools; however, I dont think I can afford their tuition.
Notice the punctuation in the above two sentences. This is the only correct way you can punctuate the
sentences when you use however, nevertheless, therefore, etc.
hungry enough or enough hungry?
The adverbs enough and not enough usually take a postmodifier position,
i.e. they come after the word that they modify.
Is the music loud enough.
This vessel is large enough to hold 20 litres.

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