Underline the modifier errors in the following sentences.

Question

1. While watching a video, the phone started to ring.
2. To get a clean bill of health, a physical should be completed regularly.
3. To succeed in college, reading is important.
4. To make the deadline, the paper was printed overnight.
5. Worried about her cat, the fireman assured the woman he would retrieve it.

Answer 1

1. While watching a video;
2. To get a clean bill of health;
3. To succeed in college;
4. To make the deadline;
5. Worried about her cat