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Which sentence contains a dangling modifier? Hungry after practice, the team gobbled up their sandwiches. Looking through his backpack, Tyler finally spotted his calculator. After trying the new recipe, chicken pizza tasted delicious. With a sigh of exhaustion, Mrs. Granger put her feet up.

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Answer:

After trying the new recipe, chicken pizza tasted delicious.

Step-by-step explanation:

Dangling modifiers are those words or phrases that are used as modifiers of a particular word but is often misinterpreted as modifying some other word. They may be placed in such a way that their intended modifying work is instead taken or interpreted as modifying a different word.

Among the given sentences, the dangling modifier is found in sentence 3. The proposed meaning of the sentence was supposed to be that after trying a new recipe, a person/ persons found that chicken pizza tasted delicious. But, with the way the sentence has been grammatically structured, it seemed as it the new recipe was tried and taste by the chicken.

Thus, the third option is the correct answer.

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