96.5k views
4 votes
Stranded on a traffic island, speeding buses and trucks held the two pedestrians hostage.

The previous sentence has an error in:
a. Apostrophe usage
b) Modifier usage
c. Parallelism
d. None of the above

1 Answer

1 vote

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Stranded on a traffic island,

what comes next has to be about the 2 "hostages". It can't be about the traffic that is holding them hostage. If this sentence was handed to any English teacher, they would immediate get their red pens out and write "This is a misplaced participial phrase"

It's sort of like the example my English gave us when I was in high school. She said, "Running up a tree, I saw a squirrel." Then she asked us to write what thought was running up the tree. She got some pretty interesting answers.

Answer B

User Futuretec
by
5.4k points