Sentence examples for dangling modifiers from inspiring English sources

Dangling modifiers?

Dangling modifiers are never in short supply.

According to an old rule about "dangling modifiers", these sentences are ungrammatical.

I spent the first 50 pages of "The Siege" tallying clichés, dangling modifiers and awkward phrases.

On our list of recurring grammatical woes, dangling modifiers rank right alongside subject-verb problems and who-whom missteps.

When she finished, the magazine was a mottled blue on every page — a circled embarrassment of dangling modifiers, conflicting pronouns, absent commas, and over-all grammatical hash.

There's a great character in SKY FULL OF SAND (Dennis McMillan Publications, $30) who runs a bar in El Paso called the DMZ -- for Dangling Modifier Zoo.

Dangling Modifier Penis.

Now take out that Dangling Modifier and Compound me hard".

But I can spot a dangling modifier a mile off.

Here's the latest crop of dangling participles, dangling appositives and other lost modifiers: More than some other large banks, Bank of America's fate is also heavily intertwined with that of consumers.