OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Anchoring the organelles in place, the tasks that are performed by the cytoskeleton within a cell's structure are crucial, and composed of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules, it maintains cell polarity.A. the tasks that are performed by the cytoskeleton within a cell's structure are crucial, and composed of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and
Incorrect.
The original sentence begins with a modifier: Anchoring the organelles in place. A modifier should be placed right next to the noun it describes. In this answer choice, what immediately follows the modifier is tasks. Even without any knowledge of cell biology, it is clear that this modifier cannot logically modify the noun tasks as a task cannot anchor organelles or do anything, for that matter.
What helps us identify this question as a Dangling or Misplaced Modifier question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
A modifier
- Verb+ing or V3, or non participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence, and separated by a comma). The modifier should modify the noun following the comma.
- Verb+ing or V3, or non participial phrase appearing in the middle to end of a sentence and preceded by a comma; the modifier should refer back to the nearest subject or clause or show the result of the previous clause.
- Verb+ing or V3, or non participial phrase appearing in the middle to end of a sentence and NOT preceded by a comma; the modifier should modify the preceding noun or noun phrase.
Whenever you see this Stop Sign, focus on the modifier: check whether the modifier has something to modify and, if so, that it modifies what it is supposed to.B. the cytoskeleton performs crucial tasks in a cell's structure, and composed of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and containing
Incorrect.
Although this answer choice corrects the original Misplaced Modifier error by placing the noun being described (cytoskeleton) directly after the modifier describing it, it creates a Parallelism error. The first two items in the list at the end of the sentence are nouns (microfilaments, intermediate filaments), but the last item is an unconjugated verb (containing). In a list, all the items must be in the same part of speech and/or of the same kind (all verbs or all nouns, or all adjectives...).
What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
C. the cytoskeleton performs crucial tasks within the structure of a cell, and composed of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and
This answer choice corrects the original Misplaced Modifier error by placing the noun being described (cytoskeleton) directly after the modifier describing it (Anchoring the organelles in place).D. the tasks being performed within a cell's structure by the cytoskeleton are crucial, and composed of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and
Incorrect.
This answer choice repeats the original Misplaced Modifier error. The original sentence begins with a modifier: Anchoring the organelles in place. A modifier should be placed right next to the noun it describes. In this answer choice, what immediately follows the modifier is tasks. Even without any knowledge of cell biology, it is clear that this modifier cannot logically modify the noun tasks as a task cannot anchor organelles or do anything, for that matter.
What helps us identify this question as a Dangling or Misplaced Modifier question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
A modifier
- Verb+ing or V3, or non participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence, and separated by a comma). The modifier should modify the noun following the comma.
- Verb+ing or V3, or non participial phrase appearing in the middle to end of a sentence and preceded by a comma; the modifier should refer back to the nearest subject or clause or show the result of the previous clause.
- Verb+ing or V3, or non participial phrase appearing in the middle to end of a sentence and NOT preceded by a comma; the modifier should modify the preceding noun or noun phrase.
Whenever you see this Stop Sign, focus on the modifier: check whether the modifier has something to modify and, if so, that it modifies what it is supposed to.E. the cytoskeleton performs crucial tasks within a cell's structure, and it is composed of microfilaments, intermediate filaments and
Incorrect.
Although this answer choice corrects the original Misplaced Modifier error by placing the noun being described directly after the modifier describing it, it does not fit into the original sentence because it disconnects the phrase it maintains cell polarity from the rest of the sentence.
The problem is that the clause "it maintains cell polarity" is unconnected to the rest of the sentence. Main clauses should be connected by conjunctions such as and, because, although, etc, and E misses that linking word, turning it into a comma splice. _________________
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