Avoiding Dangling Participial Phrases Answers
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.
_C_ 1. Containing tennis courts and pools, some marinas are more like resorts than boat garages.
_I_ 2. Having watched the movie closely, the ending was confusing.
_I_ 3. Viewing alcohol as a beverage, it is often not considered a drug.
_C_ 4. Scrubbers are small chemical plants reducing the amount of sulfur emitted by burning coal.
_I_ 5. Judging subliminal messages to be ineffective, such advertisements were abandoned I the 1950s.
_C_ 6. Trying to decide whether to buy a mask of Woody Allen or of Frankenstein, Joey lingered thoughtfully by the drugstore display.
_I_ 7. Imagining that life exists on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, many science fiction stories have been written.
_I_ 8. Remarking that too many Americans have forgotten what Memorial Day means, the parade attracted a very small crowd.
_C_ 9. Having been laid off from his job in an aircraft factory, Virgil became a detective in order to pay his mortgage bills.
_C_ 10. Riding on a rubber raft, Leslie and Colleen traveled down the Snake River.