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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Dangling Modifier?

Is there a dangling modifer in the following sentence:

To overcome client objections, the account executive faced a big obstacle: the firm's budget.
  

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You would face an obstacle in overcoming objections, not to overcome objections . In overcoming client objections the account executive faced a big obstacle: the firm's budget. There is no dangling modifier in either the original or the corrected version.

  • You would face an obstacle in overcoming objections, not to overcome objections .
  • In overcoming client objections the account executive faced a big obstacle: the firm's budget.
  • There is no dangling modifier in either the original or the corrected version.
  • CJ
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You would face an obstacle in overcoming objections, not to overcome objections.

In overcoming client objections the account executive faced a big obstacle: the firm's budget.

There is no dangling modifier in either the original or the corrected version.

CJ

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