Fix each dangling modifier, You will have to change the wording slightly. 1. Reading Milton’s sonnets, the footnotes helped me.
While reading Milton's sonnets, I found the footnotes helpful.
As I was reading Milton's sonnets, the footnotes helped me.
While reading Milton's sonnets, I found that the footnotes helped me.
To fix the dangling modifier in this sentence, we need to make sure that the subject or doer of the action is explicitly mentioned. Here's a revised sentence:
"While reading Milton's sonnets, I found that the footnotes helped me."
In this revision, we have identified that it was "I" who was reading Milton's sonnets, and therefore it becomes clear that the footnotes helped the speaker.