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Which of the following sentences has a dangling modifier? A. By having a friend carefully review your essay, you will keep grammatical errors to a minimum. B. By having a friend carefully review your essay, grammatical errors will be kept to a minimum. C. When you have a friend carefully review your essay, grammatical errors will be kept to a minimum. D. Having a friend carefully review your essay will keep grammatical errors to a minimum. PLEASE ONLY GIVE ME THE CORRECT ANSWER NOT A GUESS PLEASE

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The correct answer is B. By having a friend carefully review your essay, grammatical errors will be kept to a minimum.
A dangling modifiers is a phrase which is used incorrectly in a sentence and as such doesn't refer to what it is supposed to refer (thus creating an ambiguous sentence). The way sentence B is written, it would seem that grammatical errors have a friend who will review them, when in fact this refers to you.
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