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Which sentence is correct? Waking at five o'clock, the sky was pitch black and the usually frenetic was almost painfully quiet. Waking at five o'clock, I found the sky pitch black and the usually frenet city almost painfully quiet.

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Which sentence is correct?
Waking at five o'clock, the sky was pitch black and the usually frenetic
was almost painfully quiet.
Waking at five o'clock, I found the sky pitch black and the usually frenet
city almost painfully quiet.

Which sentence is correct? Waking at five o'clock, the sky was pitch black and the usually frenetic was almost painfully quiet. Waking at five o'clock, I found the sky pitch black and the usually frenet city almost painfully quiet.

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The correct sentence is "Waking at five o'clock, I found the sky pitch black and the usually frenetic city almost painfully quiet."

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## Step 1<br />The first sentence, "Waking at five o'clock, the sky was pitch black and the usually frenetic was almost painfully quiet," is grammatically incorrect. The phrase "Waking at five o'clock" is a dangling participle, which means it is not clearly connected to the noun it is supposed to modify. In this case, it seems to modify "the sky," which is not logical because the sky cannot wake up.<br /><br />## Step 2<br />The second sentence, "Waking at five o'clock, I found the sky pitch black and the usually frenetic city almost painfully quiet," is grammatically correct. The phrase "Waking at five o'clock" is a dangling participle that correctly modifies "I." This sentence makes logical sense, as it is the speaker who is waking up at five o'clock and finding the sky pitch black and the city quiet.
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