A) Leaves out a comma before Walt (i.e. this weekend, Walt?)
B) Is not a direct sentence. The speaker is not talking to Abraham Lincoln; she/he is only talking about him.
C) Uses the comma correctly in a direct address. The speaker is saying something directly to Denise and there is a comma directly after her name.
D) Again, the speaker may not be talking directly to the boys but simply to the parents of said boys.
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B. Walking into the room, the smell was overwhelming.
A dangling modifier is a modifier that clarifies about a subject which is not given in the statement. In this case, “Walking into the room” describes what we assume to be the narrator, without saying specifically that the narrator is doing that.
Answer:
B. Sales have been down for our department last year, but this year, we will fix this issue.
Explanation:
The first half of the sentence introduces a disheartening fact, but the second half of the sentence uplifts the audience's spirits by instilling hope, ex. "but this year, we will fix this issue".
