EXAMPLE Enriching you
Vocabulary
EXERCISE 8 EDITING SENTENCES
On a separate piece of paper, rewrite each sentence to correct all
dangling and misplaced modifiers. If a sentence is correct, write C.
Walking toward the subway, the restaurant was closed.
Walking toward the subway, I saw that the restaurant was closed.
1. We could see the mountains in the distance driving toward Colorado.
2. Scrambling wildly up the drapes, Jim tried to stop the kitten.
3. To arrive at the airport in plenty of time, the alarm was set for 6 A. M.
4. Before leaving for the movies, pictures of the wedding were shown.
6. Surrounding the moon, Shelley could see a faint light during
5. While eating dinner, the power went off.
Recur comes from
recurrere, a Latin
that means to
or run back The
Nict between love
duty is a theme the
recurs in many pl
and novels.
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the eclipse.
7. A tern plunged into the water and came up with a fish flying just
above the canal.
8. Forgetting the combination to her locker, the dream kept recurring,​

- "the basic difference between keywords and subjects is that subjects (or "subject headings") have been predetermined, while keywords have not. a keyword is an easy place to start because you can use any word that seems to fit your search; this is called "natural language" searching."

what are the options?

the correct answer is option d. none of these. it is noted that options a, b, and c share the same content.

despite the valid answer provided at the last sentence of each of the options, a question/answer format shouldn't include humourous themed responses such as "you bet your thermal pj's we do." - unless of course, the answer is carried out in an informal environment. this could be replaced with a simple "yes" or "it is necessary".

the question should be re-phrased to a more appropiate syntaxis. instead of "do we need the greenhouse effect? ", it should be written as "is the greenhouse effect necessary? " in order to give it a general scope, instead of limiting the answer to the needs of "we" the humans.

the metamorphosis is based on an evident father-son problem. this story shows, as a result of the unthinkable transformation of the son in an insect, the deformation and destruction of the individual caused by the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the family. the narrative begins with the transformation into an insect of enormous proportions of the traveling salesman gregor samsa, a lonely, introverted and submissive, who keeps his family with his work. when he worked, he was appreciated by everyone, but, now that he can not work, he is despised, especially by his father, but this is going to be joined, painfully for the protagonist, first his mother and, finally, his own sister, grete, with whom he had held a special relationship of complicity and affection for many years.

condemned by a deep sense of responsibility, gregor fears the reaction that his frightful aspect will incite in his family. he feels guilty for not being able to continue being useful to the beings he maintained. his own family, however, is ashamed and runs away from him, and even tyrannizes and resists him. the father, of a severe and despotic character, humiliates him and treats him with great cruelty. all his attempts to escape from the confinement to which he is subjected in his own room fail before the hostile rejection of the beings that surround him. prisoner in his lair and unable to continue playing the only function of making money he had, finally chooses, with the consent of his parents and sister, to die of starvation. with this, he is freed from a servile and unhappy existence. the family appreciates gregor while he fulfills the interests. but when he is unable to continue earning money, it becomes a problem, a shame, and family relationships begin to become tense, until coexistence becomes impossible.