<p>Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin used x-rays to discover the chemical structures of pencilin and vitamin B12, (winning a Noble Prize for her work)</p>
<p>why (winning a Noble Prize for her work) is the right choice I thought it would be
a misplaced modifier since it modifies Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
ANY IDEAS ??</p>
<p>why don’t we remove the modifying sentence at the end and put it at the beginning, it would be like this :
(winning a Noble Prize for her work), Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin used x-rays to discover the chemical structures of pencilin and vitamin B12
fits pertfectly (y) !</p>
<p>^why should we remove the modifying sentence ??</p>
<p>mightygiant is just saying move the modifying part to the beginning (just to see the sentence more clearly) not actually remove it. if you were to place it in the beginning (the most common place u see them) then you would realize that there is nothing wrong with the sentence.</p>