Dangling Participle Diagnosis

Diagnose 4 dangling-participle sentences. For each: identify the participle, identify what it should modify, and revise. (1) 'Walking through the gallery, the paintings impressed me.' (2) 'Surprised by the data, the conclusion shifted.' (3) 'Reading the source carefully, the meaning became clear.' (4) 'Buried in the appendix, I found the key statistic.'

1. Apply the 3-step repair: find the participle; find what it should modify; place adjacent.
2. Sentence 4 is tricky — 'Buried in the appendix' modifies 'statistic,' not 'I.'

• Doesn't recognize sentence 4 (Buried) as already correctly attached.
• Repairs sentences 1-3 but adds awkwardness.

• Lesson 7 · Verbals 2 — participles (verb-form as adjective)