Dangling Modifier in this Sentence
Nancy hit her sister with the hockey stick.
I can't find the dangling modifier in this sentence for the life of me, but according to my book, there is one there.
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banana desk 914 Nancy hit her sister with the hockey stick. I can't find the dangling modifier in this sentence for the life of me, but according to my book, there is one there. It's stretching a point.
- banana desk 914 Nancy hit her sister with the hockey stick.
- I can't find the dangling modifier in this sentence for the life of me, but according to my book, there is one there.
- It's stretching a point.
- It could be her sister that had the hockey stick.
- However, this is a very common sort of dangling that confuses no reader and that cannot be rectified anyway with any kind of reasonable reconstruction.
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banana desk 914Nancy hit her sister with the hockey stick. I can't find the dangling modifier in this sentence for the life of me, but according to my book, there is one there.
It's stretching a point. It could be her sister that had the hockey stick. However, this is a very common sort of dangling that confuses no reader and that cannot be rectified anyw
0Just to avoid that unreasonable English word game, you may say: Nancy with the hockey stick in her hand hit her sister.
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