Avoiding Dangling Participial Phrases
Directions:
Indicate whether or not the sentences below contain dangling participial phrases by using the following code:
C correct
I incorrect
Example:
_I_ Believing the ten-year-old clothes in the back of her closet will someday come back into fashion, none of them have been thrown away.
_____ 1. Containing tennis courts and pools, some marinas are more like resorts than boat garages.
_____ 2. Having watched the movie closely, the ending was confusing.
_____ 3. Viewing alcohol as a beverage, it is often not considered a drug.
_____ 4. Scrubbers are small chemical plants reducing the amount of sulfur emitted by burning coal.
_____ 5. Judging subliminal messages to be ineffective, such advertisements were abandoned I the 1950s.
_____ 6. Trying to decide whether to buy a mask of Woody Allen or of Frankenstein, Joey lingered thoughtfully by the drugstore display.
_____ 7. Imagining that life exists on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, many science fiction stories have been written.
_____ 8. Remarking that too many Americans have forgotten what Memorial Day means, the parade attracted a very small crowd.
_____ 9. Having been laid off from his job in an aircraft factory, Virgil became a detective in order to pay his mortgage bills.
_____ 10. Riding on a rubber raft, Leslie and Colleen traveled down the Snake River.