Question
Find the error in the sentence. Walking through
the forest trail at dusk, the sound of wild animals frightened the tourists badly.Solution
Dangling modifier — it seems the sound is walking. Subject should be tourists. We must make the doer of walking = tourists. So rewrite the sentence by bringing tourists as subject. Correction: Walking through the forest trail at dusk, the tourists were frightened by the sound of wild animals.
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