Sentence examples for modifier subjects were from inspiring English sources

To evaluate obesity as an effect modifier, subjects were classified into two groups according to BMI (obese, ≥ 30 kg/m; nonobese, < 30 kg/m).

To evaluate obesity as an effect modifier, subjects were classified into two groups according to BMI (obese: BMI ≥ 30 vs. non-obese: BMI < 30).

Lack of control for a) family history of atopy, b) age category of the study subjects, and c) smoking habits among study subjects were weaker modifiers for ever asthma studies [summary RRs were 0.84 and 1.20 times the joint reference estimate of RR of 1.21 (95% CI, 1.17 1.26); see Table 6 for reference categories].

All subjects were allowed to remain on corticosteroids (nasal, inhaled, and systemic) and leukotriene modifiers, eliminating the confounder of withdrawing symptom-controlling medications.

The problem with dangling modifiers is that their subjects are inherently ambiguous and sometimes a sentence will inadvertently attract a reader to the wrong choice, as in "When a small boy, a girl is of little interest".

More generally, a modifier can dangle when its implied subject is the writer and the reader.

The primary screen identified a large number of potential modifiers that were subjected to a secondary screen for hyper-activation of the response under severe heat stress.

The decision of whether to recast a sentence to align its subject with the subject of a modifier is a matter of judgment, not grammar.

No subjects who volunteered for the study were currently taking any maintenance medications (e.g., corticosteroids and leukotriene modifiers) for asthma.

The analyses examining subject characteristics as effect modifiers were repeated separately for deaths due to cardiovascular disease and deaths due to other primary causes.

Most copy editors would recast the main clause, supplying it with a subject to which the modifier can be properly fastened: "Checking into the hotel, I was pleased to see a few of my old classmates in the lobby".