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Which sentence contains a dangling modifier? Playing his guitar, Frank held the audience’s attention. While I was doing my homework, my pen ran out of ink. Dressed in a snowsuit, the cold weather did not bother the child. Reading until late at night, Caryn felt tired the next morning.

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Dressed in a snowsuit, the cold weather did not bother the child would be the answer.
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User Froblesmartin
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A dangling construction are misplaced or wrongly organized words that the writer intends to be a modifier , but instead of doing that, the modifier erroneously describes a noun or phrase that is in the sentence -- sometimes with humorous results.

In this case the Sentence that has a dandling modifier is:

Dressed in a snowsuit, the cold weather did not bother the child.

In this setence the idea is presented as if the cold weather were dressed in a snowsuit instead of the child.

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