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- From: wsthune@iastate.edu (Sir Pooh de Bear)
- Subject: Re: Dangling Participle;is this grammer?
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:32:34 GMT
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- In <1icn04INN6f7@morrow.stanford.edu> CT.MMJ@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michelle Jahanpour) writes:
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- >Can anyone out there tell me what a "dangling participle" is? It
- >sounds really lewd to me!
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- When in doubt, take a look in your Freshman English handbook.
- According to _The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers_, a
- dangling modifier is "A modifying phrase that doesn't seem
- connected to any other word or phrase in a sentence."
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- The examples offered:
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- Before deciding on a strategy, a date has to be choosen.
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- On coming back to school, baby-sitters aren't easy to
- find.
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- w scott thune
- email wsthune@iastate.edu
- The fog comes on little cat feet. -- Carl Sandburg
- Obviously, Mr. Sandburg never heard a cat walk across a linoleum floor.
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