Examples

A red dress is a weird choice for a funeral, but Kelly's always marched to the beat of her own fashion drum. In this example, we have two modifiers: red is an adjective that describes the color of the dress, and confidently is an adverb that describes how Kelly rocked the frock.

You're not alone. Here, we have an example of a phrase that acts as a modifier. The prepositional phrase of mint chocolate chip ice cream qualifies the word taste.

He never saw them coming. Hopefully you saw the modifier in this sentence. For starters, it's underlined. Here's why: the clause who was attacked by ninjas explains which boy was hospitalized… after taking several stealthy roundhouse kicks to the face.