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Answer: Dangling Modifiers

Apr 21, 2008 09:35

verilyverity asks, "What is a dangling modifier?"
(with examples from Tin Man)

Some modifiers dangle; some are misplaced. Exactly where the line is drawn seems to vary, but the term "dangling" is commonly used to describe a range of errors.

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author:amedia, structure:sentences, !answer, errors:common errors, pos:modifiers

Comments 8

forestgreen April 21 2008, 19:56:53 UTC

Thanks for posting this. It's really useful!

I should concentrating right now in writing instead of editing, but when the editing time comes this will help a lot.

amedia May 11 2008, 03:21:50 UTC

I'm so glad to hear it! You're very welcome, and thank you for the kind feedback!

oudeteron April 21 2008, 20:12:22 UTC

This is very helpful. Thanks!

amedia May 11 2008, 03:22:18 UTC

You're very welcome! I appreciate the feedback!

mrs_arcadian April 22 2008, 02:52:52 UTC

Nicely done!

Much love to the Groucho Marx reference. Much love to all of it, I mean, but Groucho gets extra fondness.

amedia May 11 2008, 03:22:44 UTC

Groucho love FTW!

callistosh65 April 22 2008, 03:06:28 UTC

Very thoroughly and wittily explained. Reminds me of a classic from one of my students once: 'Walking through the park, the flowers were beautiful'. I always use it now to point out subject agreement between clauses. (Though I think I may adopt some of the delightful ones you use here:))

amedia May 11 2008, 03:23:34 UTC

'Walking through the park, the flowers were beautiful'.

Oh, that's a truly spiffy one! And a wonderful mental image, if one pretends that it *is* grammatically correct!

I appreciate your kind feedback as well!