Question

Before leaving for the day, this work should be completed

Answer 1

Answer:

The best answer is b) dangler

Explanation:

First, let's work with elimination. We can eliminate letter a, since the sentence is not properly constructed. There is ambiguity in it, since we don't know who is leaving. Is it the speaker? Is it the person the speaker is talking to? Is it the work?

We can also eliminate letter d, for we do not have a comma splice. Comma splices happen when we join two independent sentences only with a comma. That is not the case here. We have an independent clause and a dependent one.

We are left with b) dangler and c) misplaced part. Let's check if letter c is correct. All we have to do is change the position of the clauses:

This work should be completed before leaving for the day.

We still don't know who is leaving; letter c is incorrect . Therefore, the issue is not a misplaced part, but a dangler. Danglers or dangling modifiers create ambiguity in a sentence because they do not make it clear who they are referring to. In this case, the problem is the word "leaving". To eliminate the problem, we must clearly refer to someone:

Before you leave for the day, this work should be completed.

Before I leave for the day, this work should be completed.