ACT Preparation / Unit 1 ACT 0023 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dangling Modifier
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The idea
A dangling modifier describes something the sentence never names, usually an opening phrase whose doer is not the subject that follows.
In practice
"Hiking up the trail, the view grew wider" has the view hiking.
Where people slip
Single source, Writing for Success. Ask who performs the opening action, then check that the subject after the comma names that doer.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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