Question

The following questions will test you on what you have just learned about sentence-level writing including dangling modifiers, independent and dependent clauses, and parallelismm Identify the dangling modifier in the sentence, and choose the best revision.
Katie reviewed the meeting minutes taking the train into Boston.

a. Taking the train into Boston, Katie reviewed the meeting minutes.
b. Katie reviewed the meeting minutes taking the train into Boston.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Taking the train into Boston, Katie reviewed the meeting minutes.

Explanation:

This is the best way to rewrite this sentence in order to avoid the problem of the dangling modifier. A dangling modifier is a word or a phrase within a sentence that modifies a word that is not clearly stated. In this case, the original sentence makes it sound as if the meeting minutes were the ones taking the train into Boston. The reviewed sentence gets rid of this confusion.