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

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The sentence that contains a dangling modifier is letter D. Looking toward the south, a funnel cloud stirred up the dust. A dangling modifier consists of a group of words that does not clearly describe what is being modified in the sentence because the words are misplaced or left out.
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