“Having tucked the children into bed, the cat was put out for the night” is a sentence with a dangling modifier.
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- Identify the error in each of the following problematic sentence. He put the gift in his bag that he had bought for his wife. A: fused sentence B: dangling modifier C: incomplete sentence D: misplaced modifier
- While reading the newspapers, my dog sat with me on the steps. The problem with this sentence is ________. A: run-on B: misplaced modifier C: dangling modifier D: nothing wrong
- The bus stopped suddenly I spilled coffee all over my shirt. The problem with this sentence is ________.( ) A: nothing wrong B: dangling modifier C: run-on D: misplaced modifier
- Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier?
- Boring and silly, I decided not to watch the film any more and left the cinema. A: fused sentence B: dangling modifier C: lack of subject-verb agreement D: problem in pronoun-antecedent