Question

Which sentence below uses modifiers correctly?


Narrow and winding, the coast highway led Jonah east towards the rising sun.


Excited and a little scared, the adventure was just beginning.


The wind whipping through his hair, the convertible handled every curve with ease.


He took road trips many times with no set timetable or destination.

Answer 1

Sentences 1 and 4 use modifiers correctly.

- 1 ("Narrow and winding, the coast highway led Jonah east towards the rising sun.") — the opening modifier properly describes "the coast highway."
- 4 ("He took road trips many times with no set timetable or destination.") — the modifiers correctly describe how/when he took road trips.

Sentences 2 and 3 have dangling/misplaced modifiers:
- 2: "Excited and a little scared, the adventure..." incorrectly makes the adventure the thing that's excited.
- 3: "The wind whipping through his hair, the convertible..." wrongly makes the convertible the thing with hair/wind whipping through it.