Misplaced Modifers: Dangling modifiers are those which have nothing to "hang" on to; this is, there is no word or phrase in the sentence for them to modify. Ex: Pushing open the door, the rug became ...

These are different units, and so the sentence is said to be an instance of faulty parallelism. To correct this sentence the writer might say: The point, of course, is that there can be several ways ...