What grammatical error is present in the sentence: 'Running across the busy expressway, a fast-moving truck nearly hit the young boy.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. dangling participle modifying the wrong noun subject
- Step 1: Identify introductory participial phrase: 'Running across the busy expressway'. Step 2. Check the subject immediately following: 'a fast-moving truck'. Step 3. Grammatically, this asserts the truck was running across the expressway on foot. The modifier dangles because it fails to logically attach to 'the young boy'. Answer: dangling participle modifying the wrong noun subject. Why not the others: The sentence has no parallelism issue, tense contradiction, or split infinitive.
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