Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of sentence. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of the substitutions is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (4) as your answer.

Being a rainy day, we had to abandon the match.

  1. Having been a rainy day

  2. It being a rainy day

  3. It been a rainy day

  4. No improvement needed
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B Correct answer
Explanation

There is a  dangling modifier( Being a rainy day) in the sentence, the inclusion of a pronoun 'it'  clarifies what is being modified.

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