Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier?

A. Looking toward the south, a funnel cloud stirred up the dust.
B. They saw a fence made of barbed wire behind the house.
C. Mary watched nearly two hundred movies last year.
D. The four men eating lunch talked quietly in the corner.

Question

Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier? 
    
A. Looking toward the south, a funnel cloud stirred up the dust.
B. They saw a fence made of barbed wire behind the house.
C. Mary watched nearly two hundred movies last year.
D. The four men eating lunch talked quietly in the corner.

anonymous · Answer

What do you think the answer is?

saucvi · Answer

A dangling modifier leaves you question who or what. Which answer leaves you wondering whom the subject is?

saucvi · Answer

*questioning

anonymous · Answer

mabye d.

saucvi · Answer

The subject in D are the four men. So it's not quite D.

anonymous · Answer

mabye b then.

saucvi · Answer

The subject in B is 'they' and the subject in C is 'Mary'. A is the correct answer, because you don't know who is looking toward the south.

anonymous · Answer

ok thank you