Question

Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?

A. Jerome had a box full of stories that he wrote on his computer under his bed.
B. He never left home without a small notebook in which he wrote down ideas.
C. When he read his stories out loud, he always captivated his friends and family.
D. Writing a new story every day, a successful career as an author seemed certain.

Answer 1

D. Writing a new story every day, a successful career as an author seemed certain.

Step-by-step explanation:

a dangling modifier is just a modification that messes up the reader

and that is what I felt when reading sentence D

only sentence D

Answer 2

D.

Step-by-step explanation:

A dangling modifier is a modifier that confuses the reader. In D, it seems, upon the first reading, that the career is writing a new story every day, instead of the correct noun performing the action, the author.

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