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Umaa.spk Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Correction

The driver trook the people who had been waiting for a ride. - Do you find anything wrong in it?

But the explanation in the book says, it is wrong. FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE. But even if FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE, it is not sentence fragment. The sentence means something right?
  

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To begin with, this sentence is not a fragment. It does, however, contain a dangling modifier, which is the mistake I think the book is referring to. A dangling modifier modifies a word whose identity is not made clear in the sentence.

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  • To begin with, this sentence is not a fragment.
  • It does, however, contain a dangling modifier, which is the mistake I think the book is referring to.
  • A dangling modifier modifies a word whose identity is not made clear in the sentence.
  • Most dangling modifiers appear to fit with more than one word.
  • " Does "looking out my bedroom window" modify "I" or "tree"?
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To begin with, this sentence is not a fragment. It does, however, contain a dangling modifier, which is the mistake I think the book is referring to.

A dangling modifier modifies a word whose identity is not made clear in the sentence. Most dangling modifiers appear to fit with more than one word. Here's an example: "I saw the tree looking out my bedroom window." Does "looking out my bed
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Thanks. But can you explain me how to find these kind of dangling modifiers? Am I sound absurd? But when I read the sentence at the first time, I didn't find it difficult to understand.

What if you read WHO HAD BEEN WAITING FOR A RIDE in the same flow. Doesn't it sound ride? This total relative phrase refers PEOPLE. This is what I understood.
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umaa.spkThanks. But can you explain me how to find these kind of dangling modifiers? Am I sound absurd? But when I read the sentence at the first time, I didn't find it difficult to understand.

What if you read WHO HAD BEEN WAITING FOR A RIDE in the same flow. Doesn't it sound ride? This total relative phrase refers PEOPLE. This is what I understood.

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Thanks a lot. Will definitely do that.
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umaa.spkThe driver trook the people who had been waiting for a ride. - Do you find anything wrong in it?

But the explanation in the book says, it is wrong. FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE. But even if FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE, it is not sentence fragment. The sentence means something right?

Umaa:

I don't see anything wrong in the sentence
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