Question

Which sentence corrects the dangling modifier in the sample sentence?

After reading the whole book, the ending was unsatisfying.

Reading the whole book, the ending was unsatisfying.
After reading the whole book, I found that the ending was unsatisfying.
After reading the whole book, the ending became unsatisfying.
Reading the whole book, the ending was unsatisfying.

Answer 1

"After reading the whole book, I found that the ending was unsatisfying."

This fixes the dangling modifier by supplying a logical subject ("I") who did the reading. The other options still leave the ending as the thing that "read," which is incorrect.