alleryStart learning →Strunk and White say a participle phrase that opens a sentence must refer to the sentence's:
Agrammatical object
Bmain finite verb
Cclosing adverb
Dgrammatical subject
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. grammatical subject
Their rule ties the opening participle phrase to the grammatical subject of the sentence.
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