Step 3: For each of the sentences below, select the choice that has the modifier placed correctly. If the original sentence is correct, select "no change."

		1. Living under the ground, we seldom see members of a large group of animals living in the desert.
		2. The animals that they capture and eat, these animals are the arachnids, and they include spiders and scorpions, who have a water source in this dry habitat.
		3. Surviving in the desert, one of the arachnids' most important features is their exoskeleton, which is a hard outer covering preventing moisture from escaping from their bodies.
		4. Setting a clever trap for its prey, in the deserts of North America and Australia is a common arachnid, the trap-door spider, which digs a long hole in the ground.
		5. After lining the inside and opening of the hole with webbing, the spider then masks the opening with soil and vegetation and waits in the hole for an insect to stop nearby.
		6. Immediately jumping out, the spider has patience as one of its most useful characteristics, and it waits and waits, but when an unwary insect wanders by, the hiding spider grabs the insect, and drags it into the hole.
		7. Biting people, a spider, the tarantula, lives in the Americas and grows to be quite large, sometimes bigger than a person's hand.
		8. Not being poisonous, the tarantula's weapon is its bite, and it mostly eats insects and occasionally small frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, mice, and small birds.
		9. Most being harmless to humans, the scorpion is greatly feared by people because it is one type of arachnid, has large pincers, and some are poisonous.
		10. Used sometimes to defend themselves, scorpions eat mostly insects, usually using their pincers to catch their prey.
		Step 4: Now that you have practiced recognizing and correcting dangling modifiers, think about a type of environment that you especially like (or dislike). It could the desert, the sea coast, the mountains, the woods, the big city, or any other environment. Then write a paragraph in the box below about how you feel about that environment and why. Include in your paragraph modifying phrases that begin with such words as which, that, an -ing word, an -ed word, and a preposition such as with or from. When you finish, check to make sure you placed your modifiers correctly.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.
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