- - I L-7c Placing Modifiers Carefully Edit the passage below to correct any MODIFIERS that are misplaced, ambiguous, or dangling, or that split an INFINITIVE awkwardly. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the book. EXAMPLE The colonists protested in 1764 and 1765 against taxes that Britain had placed on imports of sugar and printed matter using the slogan “No taxation without representation.” In 1766, the British agreed to repeal the taxes when the colonists stopped buying all British products. In 1767, however, the British placed other taxes on the colonists, who proceeded to again boycott imports from Britain. Sending four thousand soldiers to Boston in response to the boycott, the stage was set for violence, and indeed nervous British soldiers shot and killed protesting colonists in what became known as the Boston Massacre. After the 1767 taxes were repealed and the British troops withdrawn, relative peace resumed in Boston until 1773. In December of that year, protesting the British monopoly on importing tea into Boston and its delivery only to merchants loyal to Britain, three ships in Boston Harbor were boarded by colonists and all cases of tea thrown overboard. This so-called Boston Tea Party was soon followed by anti-British tea parties in other colonies. Though not amounting to acts of war, the Boston Tea Party’s inspirational effect led many colonists to begin preparing for armed resistance to the British, who they expected would soon attack them. In April 1775, Paul Revere and colleagues alerted Boston-area residents on horseback that British troops would soon enter the towns of Lexington and Concord. The British killed eight Minutemen in Lexington, battles followed in Concord, and the British suffered significant losses. In January 1776, Thomas Paine wrote, printed, and distributed Common Sense, an argument in defense of independence for the colonies. Half a million copies sold quickly, and public opinion began to shift significantly. Still, every colonist was not supporting the revolution; historians estimate that about a third of the population favored separation from Britain, with another third opposed and the rest not Name: _____________________________________________________ Class/section: ________________________________