Question

Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?

Answer 1

Having seen the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canyon is more impressive.

Step-by-step explanation:

A dangling modifier is a modifier that incorrectly or ambiguously modifies a word or phrase. Modifiers serve to add more information or context to the sentence.

The choices in the problem all have modifiers at the beginning of the sentence. Because of this, we expect that the word after the modifier should be the one that it's modifying.

We can notice that the modifier in the fourth choice seem to be telling us that the Grand Canyon has seen the Statue of Liberty. This is clearly illogical and not what the sentence is implying. This is therefore a dangling modifier.

Answer 2

Having seen the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canyon is more impressive.

Step-by-step explanation:

A dangling modifier is a misplaced modifier.

Having seen the Statue of Liberty is a misplaced modifier. In this sentence, it is used to modify the phrase the Grand Canyon, which is not correct. As a result, the sentence does not make sense.

The sentence should be written as something like this:

'Having seen the Statue of Liberty, we all agree that the Grand Canyon is more impressive.'

In other words, the subject that Having seen the Statue of Liberty modifies has been omitted.