In this example, the first sentence is complete, but the second is a fragment.
The two could be combined like this:
All the kids had rashes on their bodies, especially those with uranium lunch
boxes.
These errors involve punctuation, and as such we will discuss them in a bit
more detail in the punctuation section that starts on page 178.
COMMANDMENT 9: THOU SHALT NEVER LET THY MODIFIERS DANGLE.
Dangling modifier is a fancy grammatical term for a simple concept. Here are
some sentences with dangling modifiers.
Example 1:
Taking the test, his copy of Up Your Score was in his pocket.
This sentence does not mean what the person who wrote it wanted it to mean.
This sentence implies that the copy of Up Your Score was taking the test. (This
book can do many things, but it cannot take the test all by itself.) Whenever a
sentence begins with a phrase like “Taking the test,” which is supposed to
modify (that is, describe) a word in the sentence, the word that it modifies must
be in the sentence, and it must come right after the modifying phrase.
Whenever there’s a modifier, it has to modify the first noun that comes after it. (On the real, though, I wish my copy of could have taken the test for me.) Up Your Score
—Samantha
Correct: Taking the test, he had his copy of Up Your Score in his pocket.
The sentence can also be corrected another way.