Question

Identify the type of error in the sentence. If the sentence contains no error, select C.

When an old woman, the boy visited Mrs. Jones in the nursing home.

1. incorrect adverb clause placement
2. misplaced modifier
3. lack of parallel structure
4. dangling modifier
5. C

Answer 1

the answer was is 2. misplaced modifier

Answer 2

4. dangling modifier

Step-by-step explanation:

A dangling modifier refers to a word or phrase that is too distant from the word it intends to modify - which causes ambiguity - or that does not possess any word to modify at all. As a result, the expression when an old woman should be closer to the noun it modifies, which is Mrs. Jones. Thus, the revised sentence is:

The boy visited Mrs. Jones in the nursing home when she was an old woman.