ACT Aspire English: Clarifying a Dangling Modifier
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location, they must
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water and shelter while competing in frequent physical challenge is
interesting We got a lot of days and ambiguous pronouns
floating around here So let's think about this of the
underlying portion features a mysterious they which doesn't seem to
refer to anyone in particular The sentence before doesn't refer
to anyone specific either Maybe it's the same They who
were always saying that it's going to rain right and
wrong In this case though we can infer that they
refers to show participants are contestants So to clarify our
subject we should replace the ambiguous pronoun with participants like
in sea like what they do there Although ambiguous pronouns
are frustrating don't throw in the towel and take away
the subject altogether Like doing b don't just gas and
make the subject singular either like he or she still
doesn't indicate a specific subject like indeed So it should
read sent to a remote location Participants must find their
own food and water a ll that crap Okay that's 00:01:27.463 --> [endTime] it We're done