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Omar Ahmed Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Correct or not?

While doing my homework, the light went out.

Is there a dangling modifier here? I feel that the sentence is OK. Am I right?

  

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Omar Ahmed Is there a dangling modifier here? Yes. The light was doing your homework.

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Omar AhmedIs there a dangling modifier here?

Yes. The light was doing your homework. Use "While I was doing …."

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Omar AhmedIs there a dangling modifier here?

Yes, but in cases like this, where it's not a problem for the reader to retrieve the intended meaning, it's fairly common to overlook the dangler and leave it as is, especially in less formal writing. However, in academic writing it's best to revise such sentences to remove the problem.

CJ

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