Question 12 • *HSA 26-27 English IV A -IC
“Materializing from the mist” is a participial phrase, and it should describe the noun that follows it. As written, it seems to describe “the alarm,” but the alarm is not what emerged from the mist; the ship did. The sentence places the participial phrase in the wrong place. A clearer version is: “Materializing from the mist, the ship heard the alarm warn it to steer quickly to the right of the rocks.”
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