It's often futile to try to convince people that they should adopt a particular political position, but if you try, make sure to appeal to logic. Try to eliminate as much emotion from your argument as possible.
A word or phrase that modifies a word not included in the sentence is a B. dangling modifier. For example: Knowing that it was getting cold outside, the pizza tasted very good.
It depends on which word is in bold. If the bolded word is <em>ribbon, </em>then it is used as a direct object in this sentence. The winner is indirect object, and a ribbon is direct.
