The following questions will test you on what you have just learned about sentence-level writing including dangling modifiers, independent and dependent clauses, and parallelism.

Identify the dangling modifier in the sentence, and choose the best revision.

Teagan saw the recommendations flipping through the report.

i. Flipping through the report, Teagan saw the recommendations.

ii. Teagan saw the recommendations, flipping through the report.

While speaking to the project manager, my allergies caused me to have a sneezing fit.

i. While I was speaking to the project manager, my allergies caused me to have a sneezing fit.

ii. While speaking to the project manager, my allergic reaction caused me to have a sneezing fit.

Answer 1:

A dangling modifier is a modifier without subject or with different befuddling subjects. Right now, 'through the report' is a modifier. It is dangling since we don't see obviously which subject (Teagan or Recommendation?) is being changed.

The best decision is the first. Flipping through the report, Teagan saw the proposal. Note that since the real subject is coming soon after the modifier isolated by a comma. It clarifies that the subject is Teagan.

Answer 2:

Here once more, the primary choice is right. While I was addressing the venture director, my sensitivities made me have a wheezing fit.

Note that in the subsequent choice, the importance of the sentence becomes as though the subject 'unfavourably susceptible response' is talking. This isn't right.