Try to recognize what’s funny about this sentence: After being beaten and deflated, the baker shaped and seasoned the dough.
The sentence is ridiculous because of the comma phrase at the start-it seems like the baker is being beaten before he goes off to work on the dough. ‘After being beaten and deflated’ is called a modifier because it modifies or describes someone or something in the same sentence. Here, the modifier is misplaced. Instead, it should go right next to the thing it’s supposed to modify:
After being beaten and deflated, the dough was shaped and seasoned by the baker.