Which sentence contains a misplaced or dangling modifier?
a. running is one way i deal with stress.
b. sleeping peacefully, the thunder frightened me.
c. the holiday season was filled with joyous celebrations.
d. mrs. smith collected the research papers in alphabetical order. save

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.