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Now whether Nono really did throw the pottery, Henze was (it's shocking to have to write that past participle following news of his death, even in his last years, the twinkle of his blue eyes and his Puckish energy seemed inextinguishable) certainly an outsider in the terms and frames of the postwar avant garde – especially to one of the most single-minded modernists of them all like Nono.

If this last was the point, it at least shows that times have — to use the past participle of Obama's favorite word — changed.

Past participle?

A dangling participle?

But they dare not dangle a participle.

The past participle of "tread" is "trod".

The past participle is "shaken," of course.

This is a classic dangling participle.

This needs settling (pardon the participle or gerund).

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Thus, "I am thinking" (participle form of verb); "a thinking reader" (adjective, participle); "thinking is dangerous" (noun, gerund).

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