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Is my modifier dangling?

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  • After drinking beer at a bar, the car would not start.
  • He wore a straw hat on his head, which was obviously too small.
  • Being wet, green, and warty, the princess gave the frog the kiss he needed so badly.
  • Completely engulfed in flames, I was unable to identify the building.
  • Reading a book by the window, my cat jumped into my lap.
  • Crawling out of my tent one morning, I saw an elephant in my pajamas.
  • With some of her new money she also bought a very early black and white television set. Mounted in a grand wood veneer cabinet, her grandchildren clamoured to come over and watch it. (From a biography of Roald Dahl.)
  • She read from her new book wearing glasses.
  • Selling several old dresses from grandmother in beautiful condition.
  • Living the strenuous life of a playboy in Europe and America, his wife grew increasingly mentally unstable. (Chambers Biographical Dictionary, entry on F. Scott Fitzgerald.)
  • Dressed in a diaper and drooling, Grandpa read a book to his granddaughter.
  • We found the contact lens during dinner on the carpet.