dangling participles
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participles — 1. There are two kinds of participle in English: the present participle ending in ing as in We are going, and the past participle ending in d or ed for many verbs and in t or en or some other form for others, as in Have you decided? / New houses… … Modern English usage
Dangling modifier — A dangling modifier, a specific case of which is the dangling participle,[1] is an error in sentence structure whereby a grammatical modifier is associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a … Wikipedia
dangling participle — Gram. a participle or participial phrase, often found at the beginning of a sentence, that appears from its position to modify an element of the sentence other than the one it was intended to modify, as plunging in Plunging hundreds of feet into… … Universalium
dangling participle — noun a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., flying across the country in flying across the country the Rockies came into view • Hypernyms: ↑dangling modifier,… … Useful english dictionary
dangling participle — dan′gling par′ticiple n. gram. use a participle or participial phrase, often found at the beginning of a sentence, that appears from its position to modify an element of the sentence other than the one it was intended to modify, as plunging in… … From formal English to slang
dangling modifiers — are one of the more complicated and disagreeable aspects of English usage, but at least they provide some compensation by being frequently amusing. Every authority has a stock of illustrative howlers. Fowler, for instance, gives us Handing me… … Dictionary of troublesome word
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