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GED writing practice: dangling modifiers

Question 25 of 36Modifiers

Which choice completes the sentence so that the opening phrase describes the right person?
Carrying two heavy bags of groceries up the stairs, ________.

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How to approach this kind of question

A sentence that opens with a describing phrase and a comma must name, right after the comma, the one the phrase describes. First ask who or what is doing the action in the opening phrase. Then read the opening phrase with each choice and check the first noun after the comma. If the sentence now says that a thing did something only a person can do, the choice is wrong.

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