<p>From the BB,</p>
<p>Lacking good instruction, <i made=“” numerous=“” mistakes=“” in=“” creating=“” a=“” graph=“” to=“” illustrate=“” historical=“” trends.=“”></i></p><i made=“” numerous=“” mistakes=“” in=“” creating=“” a=“” graph=“” to=“” illustrate=“” historical=“” trends.=“”>
<p>I put the answer <the graph=“” i=“” made=“” for=“” illustrating=“” historical=“” trends=“” had=“” numerous=“” mistakes.=“”></the></p>
<p>I picked graph over the author. ‘the graph lacked good instruction’
Why is it wrong?</p>
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<p>It’s because you gave the graph the trait of lacking good instruction instead of the author. You don’t give the graph instructions, you give the maker of the graph instructions on how to make it.</p>
<p>When you have a sentence that begins like this:</p>
<p>Lacking good instruction, I made numerous mistakes in creating a graph to illustrate historical trends. </p>
<p>The first part of the sentence is not referring to the graph lacking instruction, but to I.</p>
<p>Thus, the “lacking … instruction” must be closest to what it modifies or refers to.</p>
<p>Like this sentence:</p>
<p>Eating the zebra, the tourists watched as the lion roared. </p>
<p>The tourists arent eating the zebra, but the sentence makes it sound like that.</p>
<p>It should read: Eating the zeba, the lion roared as the tourists watched.</p>
<p>The graph did not lack good instruction, YOU lack good instruction from your teachers, so that is why you made the mistake on the graph. Lacking good instruction, I …</p>