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select the misplaced or dangling modifier.
admiring the gardens outside the palace of versailles, the immaculate symmetry of the trees, bushes, and fountains continued almost all the way to the horizon.
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A dangling modifier occurs when the word/phrase being modified is not clearly stated in the sentence. Here, the participial phrase "Admiring the gardens outside the Palace of Versailles" implies a person is doing the admiring, but the sentence's subject is "the immaculate symmetry of the trees, bushes, and fountains"—an inanimate thing that cannot perform the action of admiring. This makes the phrase a dangling modifier.
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Admiring the gardens outside the Palace of Versailles