1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
andriy [413]
3 years ago
11

Rewrite the sentence by correcting the faulty parallelism, misplaced modifier, squinting modifier, or dangling modifier.

English
1 answer:
Alekssandra [29.7K]3 years ago
4 0

Answer and explanation:

1) Twisting the valve tightly shut, the fire hydrant stopped spewing water into the street.

There is a dangling modifier, "Twisting the valve tightly shut." We do not know who was twisting the valve shut, and it certainly wouldn't make sense for it to be the fire hydrant. To correct it, we could add the missing information:

1) After the fireman had twisted the valve tightly shut, the fire hydrant stopped spewing water into the street.

2) We enjoyed his company because of his stories and how he told them.

There is faulty parallelism in this sentence since the two things that come after "because" do not present the same grammatical structure. To correct it, we need to change one of the two things to make it "similar" to the other:

2) We enjoyed his company because of how interesting his stories were and how he told them.

3) While playing basketball in the driveway, my ball was punctured by a cactus.

Another dangling modifier here, "While playing basketball in the driveway." We can assume I was the one playing, since the ball is said to be mine. But that isn't at all clear in the sentence. Let's correct it:

3) While I was playing basketball in the driveway, my ball was punctured by a cactus.

4)The rescue team almost arrived too late.

We have a squinting modifier, an adverb that is placed at a strange position. Did the rescue team arrive or not? Did they arrive but too late? "Almost" should be placed somewhere else to make it clear whether the team arrived.

4)The rescue team arrived almost too late.

You might be interested in
At the beginning of scene 4, why is everyone tense?
salantis [7]

Answer:

what play is it, im confused what ur looking for

3 0
3 years ago
Help plz
8090 [49]
Each of the body paragraphs
7 0
3 years ago
Hamlet: Why, right; you are i’ the right;
Usimov [2.4K]

Answer:

From the context, the reader can determine that the word i’ means the following:

in.

Explanation:

Hamlet states anyone who acts with villainy will indeed be regarded as a villain in Denmark. Horatio tells Hamlet it does not take a ghost returning from his grave to tell them that, since it is rather obvious. To which Hamlet replies: "Why, right; you are i’ the right", that is, "Why, right; you are in the right", which "translates" as "You are totally right!."

6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Read the passage:
hjlf
Slavery
"was laughed at and made out fun on account of his look and the sound of his voice.
3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Read these passages:
Fed [463]

We can actually deduce here that Sexton's and Gilbert's interpretations of the Icarus myth differ from Ovid's because: A. They focus on Icarus's victory over flight instead of his eventual drowning.

<h3>What is interpretation?</h3>

Interpretation simply refers to the way something or a subject is explained to someone or to people in order to make them understand. It has to do with unveiling some hidden concepts.

We see here that from Gilbert's and Sexton's interpretations, they actually focused on Icarus victory. They didn't focus on his drowning. Gilbert said who cares that he fell back into the sea.

Learn more about interpretation on brainly.com/question/4785718

#SPJ1

5 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • NEED HELP ASAP, WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST!!
    15·1 answer
  • Answer with a name.
    7·1 answer
  • Please help me with this... Does this rule help us survive or thrive? Why? Rule: If a grown up ever starts a sentence by saying
    5·2 answers
  • Wich is right option ​
    8·2 answers
  • What type of writing is most similar to an autobiography?
    12·2 answers
  • what did franz kafka, before his death, instruct his friend max brod to destroy all his unpublished manuscripts?
    9·1 answer
  • In the first paragraph on page 148 write down an example of a simile.
    11·1 answer
  • Where should the colon go in the sentence? I think English is wonderful!​
    11·1 answer
  • Drag each sentence to the correct category. Not all sentences will be used.
    12·1 answer
  • How old is Huck Finn?.
    7·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!