Subject omission?
Before entering the furnace, the fuel is pulverized.
Fuel -- enters
Fuel -- is pulverized.
Before building the dam, the course of the river will have to be diverted.
This sentence isn't taken as "Before the course of the river builds the dam".
Do you think you just use your common sense? Is it the key to judging what the sentence says, not the rules of grammar?
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Supercat Before building the dam, the course of the river will have to be diverted. Common sense certainly needs to be use to make sense of sentences, and most people can make sense of the given sentence. Nevertheless, in an academic setting the sentence will be marked up in red ink because of that misplaced modifier, and a better version will be suggested or, less charitably, you'll just be asked to do a rewrite.
- Supercat Before building the dam, the course of the river will have to be diverted.
- Common sense certainly needs to be use to make sense of sentences, and most people can make sense of the given sentence.
- Nevertheless, in an academic setting the sentence will be marked up in red ink because of that misplaced modifier, and a better version will be suggested or, less charitably, you'll just be asked to do a rewrite.
- ) CJ
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SupercatBefore building the dam, the course of the river will have to be diverted.
Common sense certainly needs to be use to make sense of sentences, and most people can make sense of the given sentence.
Nevertheless, in an academic setting the sentence will be marked up in red ink because of that misplaced modifier, and a better version will be sugge
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