Thomas Paine's collection of articles are included under the title heading "The American Crisis". In the article "Common Sense", Paine had brought arguments before the common citizens of America to speak against the government. Paine presented his ideas of independence and termed the egalitarian government of America to be 'necessary evil'.

In the given lines, Paine had used hyperbole to inspire his readers to move on during the time of difficulty. Paine asks his audience to be stiff and stand against all the extreme efforts of the government. With the figurative language, hyperbole is the exaggeration of the thoughts and ideas.

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Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?

Alex_Xolod [135]

The sentence that contains the dangling modifier is this: IN A RUSH, THE SLOW TRAFFIC WAS GRATING ON MY NERVES.
A dangling modifier refers to an ambiguous grammatical expression, that is constructed in such a way that, it makes it very easy for the grammatical modifier in the sentence to be associated with the wrong word or with no word at all.
Sentences with dangling modifiers should be re-written in such a way that it will be very easy to recognize the word that the modifier is modifying.
In the statement given in option A, it can be seen that it is very difficult to know who or what the rush is referring to; we can not say for sure may be it is the writer that is in a rush or may it is the slow traffic that is grating her nerves in a rushing manner.<span />

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