Standard English ConventionsVery hardDangling modifier with a passive main clause
Standard English Conventions practice question
Founded as a coaching inn in 1740, ____
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. the building has served as a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery.Correct
- B. a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery have all occupied the building.
- C. the town has used the building as a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery.
- D. there have been a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery in the building.
Answer: A. the building has served as a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery.
The building is what was founded, so it must be the subject of the main clause.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery have all occupied the building.
- Makes the bank, school, and surgery the things founded in 1740.
- C. the town has used the building as a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery.
- Makes the town founded as an inn.
- D. there have been a bank, a school, and a doctor's surgery in the building.
- 'There' cannot be founded.
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