Select the sentence with the dangling modifier.
a. because he was injured, benny was disappointed he couldn’t play in the game. b. cheering in the stands, the spectators hoped the team would remember their c. skills. the tigers played the best game of their lives and were very proud of their teamwork.
d. jumping for joy, the basketball championship was won.

Jumping for joy, the basketball championship was won ( d )

Explanation:

A dangling modifier is a either a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of a word that is not clearly stated in a given sentence. A modifier practically clarifies an action word in a sentence.

"Jumping for joy" contains the dangling modifier although it doesn't state why and who was jumping but it clarifies the kind of action " jumping" that was taking place in the given sentence. A dangling modifier usually does not give a way the doer of an action.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.