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** ex.: "Smiling grandly, she won the choral competition" | ** ex.: "Smiling grandly, she won the choral competition" | ||
*** = unclear if she won the competition ''because'' she was "smiling grandly" or if she was "smiling grandly" ''when'' she won the tournament | *** = unclear if she won the competition ''because'' she was "smiling grandly" or if she was "smiling grandly" ''when'' she won the tournament | ||
* see | * for the SAT Writing test, note that the nouns in participial phrases are NEVER the subject of the sentence! | ||
** ex.: "The extra players practicing all season as a backup have never had a chance to play" | |||
** Here the participial phrase "practicing all season" and the prepositional phrase, "as a backup" modify the subject "players" | |||
*** therefore we match the plural "players" with the plural present perfect verb "have never had" (as opposed to the singular "has never had") | |||
** see CB Test 6, Writing question no. 7 | |||
* see: | |||
** [https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/dangling_modifiers_and_how_to_correct_them.htm dangling modifiers (owl.purdue.edu)] | |||
** [https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/gerunds_participles_and_infinitives/participles.html participles(owl.purdue.edu)] | |||
=== prepositional phrase === | === prepositional phrase === | ||