Which sentence contains a dangling Modifier?

Which Sentence Contains A Dangling Modifier?

1. A) Walking through the park, the trees were swaying in the breeze.
2. B) After finishing the book, the television was turned on.
3. C) To get to the other side of the street, the road was crossed.
4. D) Running quickly, the finish line was crossed in record time.

Answer: A) Walking through the park, the trees were swaying in the breeze.

Since it explicitly refers to a dangling modifier we need to define this term: a dangling modifier is a phrase which points to a certain subject in a rather vague and illogical way thus considering the context it can cause only amusement. In this case, the participial phrase used is “Walking through the park” which is used to tell about a person; however, the structure of the whole sentence gives an idea as if the trees were walking instead of the person.

To fix this sentence, we could rewrite it as: ‘If it is the case, then sentences such as “As I was walking through the park, the trees were swaying in the breeze. “, clarify who was walking.

Unclean intuitive prepositions are other Blazer’s fallacies of writing that can change the intended meaning of the sentence entirely. For instance, the given statement, “After eating dinner the dishes were washed” implies that the dishes consumed dinner. A corrected version would be: To support this, it is only appropriate to describe what transpired on that fateful night, and that was after having dinner, we washed the dishes.

Another example: Here the same abbreviation is again used as the subject of the sentence: ‘Exhausted from the long hike, the comfortable bed was a welcome sight.’ A better version would be: I was quite tired following the hike hence the comfortable bed was such a blessing to the eyes.

Writers may thus be able to avoid errors in the areas of dangling modifiers because these notes help clear some important conscience on the kind of sentences they write.