Take another look at the sentence:

Scolding the noisy teenagers, silence returned to the library.

Scolding the noisy teenagers, a participle phrase, comes right before silence, an illogical target. Silence doesn't have a mouth that can scold! Before you continue, review the rules for misplaced and dangling modifiers.

Go back to the sentence to try again.

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