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Standard English ConventionsVery hardModifier placement: dangling participle

Standard English Conventions practice question

Exhausted after the climb, ____

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

  1. A. the walkers slept for ten hours.Correct
  2. B. ten hours of sleep followed for the walkers.
  3. C. the walkers' tent was pitched quickly.
  4. D. sleep came quickly to the walkers' tent.

Answer: A. the walkers slept for ten hours.

Those exhausted are the walkers, so they must be the subject.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. ten hours of sleep followed for the walkers.
Makes the sleep exhausted.
C. the walkers' tent was pitched quickly.
Makes the tent exhausted.
D. sleep came quickly to the walkers' tent.
Makes sleep exhausted.

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