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Zorluk: OrtaAdjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers

Read the sentence below carefully:

*Having completed the financial audit of the municipal transport authority, several major accounting discrepancies were discovered by the independent panel.*

Which of the following revisions presents a grammatically correct sentence that eliminates the modifier error?

  1. Having completed the financial audit of the municipal transport authority, the independent panel discovered several major accounting discrepancies.Cevap
  2. B
    Having completed the financial audit of the municipal transport authority, several major accounting discrepancies emerged before the independent panel.
  3. C
    Having completed the financial audit of the municipal transport authority, the independent panel offered a complimentary report detailing the discrepancies.
  4. D
    After completing the financial audit of the municipal transport authority, the independent panel did a discovery of several major accounting discrepancies.

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The revision that places 'the independent panel' immediately following the introductory participial phrase correctly identifies the agent performing the audit and resolves the dangling modifier.
The correct revision places 'the independent panel' as the subject immediately following the introductory participial phrase. Since the panel performed the audit, this positioning ensures that the modifier phrase 'Having completed the financial audit...' logically describes the subject of the main clause, successfully correcting the dangling modifier error.

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1
Identify the modifier phrase and its target subject.
The introductory participial phrase is 'Having completed the financial audit of the municipal transport authority'.
A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must logically modify the subject of the main clause that immediately follows.
2
Determine who performed the action in the modifier.
The entity performing the audit is 'the independent panel', not 'discrepancies'.
An inanimate object like an accounting discrepancy cannot perform an audit.
3
Select the sentence revision that aligns the subject directly after the modifier without introducing lexical or collocational errors.
The revision placing 'the independent panel' directly after the comma creates proper modifier alignment.
This structure adheres strictly to standard English rules for introductory participial modifiers.

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