Question

Correct or Wrong

Walking toward the church, the stained glass looked beautiful.

Answer 1

This is an English question. It should have gone to the English section. But for this one time, it is wrong. Because the subject here is the stained glass and look at your first part of the sentence.

Answer 2

is the stained class looking beautiful while walking to church? lol um a better way would be to say: I noticed the beautiful stained glass while walking to church

Answer 3

toward the church*

Answer 4

Can you explain what a dangling modifier is?

Answer 5

A dangling modifier is a word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence. A modifier describes, clarifies, or gives more detail about a concept.

Answer 6

Having finished the assignment, Jill turned on the TV.
"Having finished" states an action but does not name the doer of that action. In English sentences, the doer must be the subject of the main clause that follows. In this sentence, it is Jill. She seems logically to be the one doing the action ("having finished"), and this sentence therefore does not have a dangling modifier.

The following sentence has an incorrect usage:

Having finished the assignment, the TV was turned on.
"Having finished" is a participle expressing action, but the doer is not the TV set (the subject of the main clause): TV sets don't finish assignments. Since the doer of the action expressed in the participle has not been clearly stated, the participial phrase is said to be a dangling modifier.

Answer 7

You got that from Purdue OWL @gk99 right?

Answer 8

yup

Answer 9

y