Identify the sentence that contains a misplaced or dangling modifier. a. after counting the ballots several times, the election commission sent the results to the secretary of state. b. writing during the elizabethan era, shakespeare often dramatized the problems of royalty. c. hidden under the doormat, the burglar easily found the spare key. d. although the contract was difficult to understand, elizabeth was able to interpret it.

Read the excerpt from "politics and the english language" by george orwell. by this morning’s post i have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions in germany. the author tells me that he "felt impelled” to write it. i open it at random, and here is almost the first sentence that i see: "[the allies] have an opportunity not only of achieving a radical transformation of germany’s social and political structure in such a way as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in germany itself, but at the same time of laying the foundations of a cooperative and unified europe.” which statement is correct? orwell uses an example and statistical evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses an example and a quotation for evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and factual evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and statistical evidence in this excerpt.