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Author Question: What is wrong with the following sentence? Either we'll go to the movies or going to Marty's will be ... (Read 64 times)

misspop

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on: Jul 15, 2018
What is wrong with the following sentence? Either we'll go to the movies or going to Marty's will be our plan.
 
  a. It has a dangling modifier.
  b. It has a misplaced modifier.
  c. It is a run-on sentence.
  d. It is not parallel.

Question 2

What kind of grammatical error is present in the following sentence? Here is two books for you to return to the library.
 
  a. misplaced modifier
  b. dangling modifier
  c. intervening prepositional phrase
  d. problem with subject-verb agreement


mfedorka

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d. It is not parallel.

Answer to Question 2

d. problem with subject-verb agreement


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