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CAHSEE ELA 2.1 Writing: Modifiers and Passive Voice 217 Views
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CAHSEE ELA: Modifiers and Passive Voice, Problem 1. How should this sentence be changed, if at all?
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- 00:03
Hope you've got your question pants on...
- 00:06
How should this sentence be changed, if at all?
- 00:09
Driving to lunch, my car broke down.
- 00:12
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:18
OK, back up -- beep beep beep -- what is a dangling modifier?
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- 00:26
Careful... this is G rated...
- 00:28
Do cars drive themselves?
- 00:30
Okay... do MOST cars drive themselves?
- 00:33
If you read the sentence carefully, it actually sounds like the car itself was doing the driving
- 00:37
-- and that's clearly not the case.
- 00:43
The subject doing the driving is the speaker.
- 00:46
So what we have here is a dangling modifier;
- 00:53
it's clear that our intention is to refer to the narrator,
- 00:57
but grammatically, it sounds like we're talking about... someone or something else.
- 01:01
While I was driving is the only structure that will work for this sentence
- 01:05
So our answer is B.
- 01:07
As in, "Back it up."
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