dangling participle

created by IvyNeko

(thing) by Lord Brawl (2 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Jan 23 2000 at 4:48:11

A participle is dangling when the subject of the verb and the subject of the sentence do not agree.

"Noding into the night, IvyNeko's stomach rumbled." The subject is IvyNeko's stomach, but IvyNeko's stomach isn't doing the noding.

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Participle	Subject/verb agreement: It's what's for breakfast	Highway to hell in a handbasket	Misplaced modifier
Dangling preposition	Colorless green ideas sleep furiously	Florida statute regarding public nudity	...
grammar	split infinitive	Everything2 as a pedagogical tool	Trailing preposition
Cramer's Rule	The Angel rode a Panhead	Genitive	Stanley Kubrick
Noding	Adderall	I'm afraid of posting on e2	IRC
ablative absolute	Bun E. Carlos	House of Dark Shadows	past participle

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