Grammar Test B Answer 7

7. Awaiting the next winter rains, September finds the vernal pools dry and nervous about continued suburban sprawl.

Ans.7 . Awaiting the next winter rains, the vernal pools in September are dry and nervous about continued suburban sprawl.


1. Here the main problem is that "Awaiting the next winter rains" is a dangling modifier. It is not an action that the subject of the main clause ("September") is performing. Therefore, one must make "vernal pools" the subject. This is what is really awaitngthe next winter rains.

Then one must supply a verb. Here I have simply used the verb "to be."