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=== grammatical usage === | === grammatical usage === | ||
* misplaced or dangling modifier | * misplaced or dangling modifier | ||
** ''Covered in Chocolate, the boy loved his cake'' | |||
*** who/what was covered in chocolate, the boy or his cake | |||
** the SAT will present dangling modifiers similar to: | |||
*** ''The hate from the critic's essay destroyed her reputation'' | |||
**** = incorrect because it was not the hate that destroyed her reputation, it was the essay | |||
***** (and "essay" is the object of the preposition "from" and not the subject of the verb "destroyed") | |||
=== object preposition mistaken for subject === | === object preposition mistaken for subject === |