Choose the sentence with correctly placed introductory participial phrase (another example).

Choose the sentence with correctly placed introductory participial phrase (another example).

• A. After finishing the project, the report was published.
• B. After finishing the project, she published the report.
• C. Finishing the project, the report was published.
• D. The report was published finishing the project.

Answer: (B)

Introductory participial phrases must attach to the same subject as the main clause to avoid a dangling modifier. In the correct sentence, the phrase After finishing the project is understood to refer to the same person who starts the main clause—the subject she. So the sequence is clear: she finished the project, then she published the report.

The other options misplace or misassign the subject. One option leaves the introductory phrase without a clear subject, making it seem like the report finished the project. Another option makes the introductory phrase modify the report itself, as if the report were the one finishing the project, which is illogical. The last option puts the participial idea at the end, not at the start, and it reads awkwardly and ambiguously.

So the best choice keeps the subject consistent and the actions in a natural, logical order: the subject performs the action in the introductory phrase and again in the main clause.