Identify the sentence containing a misplaced modifier error:
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Walking through the historical district, the centuries-old mosques appeared magnificent.
- Step 1: A participial phrase at the start of a sentence must logically modify the immediate grammatical subject that follows the comma.
- Step 2: In sentence 1, 'Walking through the historical district' modifies 'the centuries-old mosques', implying that the mosques were walking.
- Step 3: This is a classic dangling/misplaced modifier error.
Answer
Walking through the historical district, the centuries-old mosques appeared magnificent.
Why not the others: In the other three sentences, the subject correctly walking is 'the tourists', maintaining logical and syntactic precision.
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