Can LLMs identify dangling modifiers?

Catherine and I have never seen LLMs use dangling modifiers, but we’ve wondered if they can identify them. That’s because LLMs are designed to generate text, not to evaluate it.

Here’s what happened when I fed Gemini (formerly Bard) a dangling modifier:

Instead of identifying a dangling modifier, Gemini misidentifies passive voice and subject-verb agreement.

On the other hand, Gemini has no problem generating a dangling modifier:

And when I then fed Gemini its own example of a dangling modifier, it could identify it as such:

Next time, we’ll take a look at how Chat does.