Questions 1–5: rewrite the following sentences, shifting unclear modifiers to their correct places.
1. jane and jim only have one child.
2. she merely went to new york to see her editor.
3. last month he almost got enough speeding tickets to lose his license.
4. she’s so lazy, she won’t even pick up the phone when she’s sitting next to it.
5. kevin had scarcely walked one block when he remembered he had left his lunch at home.

In the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” if a company habitually paid below 80 percent, feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: the cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. unfortunately, the number of bagels that disappear without being paid for has also gone up. don’t let that continue. i don’t imagine that you would teach your children to cheat, so why do it yourselves? the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument? a claim an example a conclusion a counterclaim