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dangling participles
noun
Plural of dangling participle
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Fur balls, like dangling participles, are not welcome.
As they rattle off influences, they pick up each others' dangling participles the way twins might.
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.
Aside from a few from Asia and the Mediterranean, which feel like dangling participles in otherwise tight, crisp prose, most of them come from northern parts, including Russia and Scandinavia.
When she writes Dose headlines, she said, "there is a part of Syracuse University Chelsea that's, like, 'I don't know if this is the way I should write it.' " The headlines that "win," according to Spartz's testing algorithm, are usually hyperbolic, and many of them begin with dangling participles or end with prepositions.
She is a big fan of dangling participles, \r\nliposuction and election recounts.
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The Dangling Participle.
Lonely and multilingual, Silvia bears a heavy responsibility: she sits in a booth and translates simultaneously from one tongue to another, fully aware that global war may be triggered if she leaves one of her participles dangling in midair.
I like to say that after having written 800 pages on torture, rape, world war, and genocide, it was time to take on some really controversial topics like fused participles, dangling modifiers, and the serial comma.
On Jan . 9 , 1956she wrote, "with my participles dangling and my infinitives splitting, I was launched in my writing career" — and terrified that nobody would write in.
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