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A carefully constructed résumé can impress a potential
employer.
Bored and restless, the minutes seemed to crawl.
Who was bored and restless? (If the sentence does not say, the
decision is yours.)
Bored and restless, I felt the minutes crawl.
Because Dylan was bored and restless, the minutes seemed to
crawl.
Listless and feverish, the pediatrician suspected the flu.
Sometimes, the only solution is to reconstruct the sentence. If you try
putting “the child” after listless and feverish, you will probably change
the meaning of the sentence.
The pediatrician suspected that the listless and feverish child
had the flu.
Because the child was listless and feverish, the pediatrician
suspected the flu.
Practice 19-4 Correcting
