Question

Correct the following dangling constructions by rewriting the sentence.

When discouraged, the Bible provides a blessed comfort.

Answer 1

thoughts?

as a general rule, participles should be placed close to the noun they are supposed to be modifying

in this case, the closest noun to "when discouraged" is "the Bible." however, that doesn't make sense, because a Bible is an inanimate object and therefore cannot be discouraged. so you could re-write the sentence so that there's a person (or at least a pronoun) closer to "the Bible."

can you try re-writing the sentence now? if you're still stuck I can help you by giving you an example.