Take another look at the sentence:

Walking into the tree, Kareem's old, holey shirt was ripped, and his forehead got banged.

Walking into the tree, a participle phrase, comes right before shirt, an illogical target. Kareem, not the shirt, is the one with legs that can walk! [Kareem's, a possessive noun, functions as an adjective, as do old and holey, describing shirt.] Before you continue, review the rules for misplaced and dangling modifiers.

Go back to the sentence to try again.

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