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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
A dangling participle
Star is the protagonist's steed.
High ground ahead, and Star's muscles bunching and relaxing, bunching and relaxing beneath me, as he leaps the rills and freshets, plunges through a racing, roiling sheet, and strikes the slope, hoofs sparkling against stones as we mount higher, the voice of gurgling, eddying flow beneath us deepening to a steady roar . . .
Higher, then, and dry, pausing to wring out the corners of my cloak . . .
["The Guns of Avalon" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if the underlined phrases mean "We mounted higher, and then the ground is dry, and I paused t wring out the corners of my clock."
If so, I'd also like to know if "pausing" is a dangling participle.
Thank you in advance for your help.
High ground ahead, and Star's muscles bunching and relaxing, bunching and relaxing beneath me, as he leaps the rills and freshets, plunges through a racing, roiling sheet, and strikes the slope, hoofs sparkling against stones as we mount higher, the voice of gurgling, eddying flow beneath us deepening to a steady roar . . .
Higher, then, and dry, pausing to wring out the corners of my cloak . . .
["The Guns of Avalon" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if the underlined phrases mean "We mounted higher, and then the ground is dry, and I paused t wring out the corners of my clock."
If so, I'd also like to know if "pausing" is a dangling participle.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
From the excerpt that you have posted, it seems that the passage is written in a creative style that may not follow grammatical rules exactly to the letter. The first sentence is not strictly grammatical according to formal rules (though it is quite acceptable in the style in which it is intended). Yes, "higher" means that they climbed higher (or just were higher); "dry" probably means that the ground is dry, in contrast to the "rills and freshets" of earlier.
- From the excerpt that you have posted, it seems that the passage is written in a creative style that may not follow grammatical rules exactly to the letter.
- The first sentence is not strictly grammatical according to formal rules (though it is quite acceptable in the style in which it is intended).
- Yes, "higher" means that they climbed higher (or just were higher); "dry" probably means that the ground is dry, in contrast to the "rills and freshets" of earlier.
- It is not possible to say whether "pausing" is dangling without seeing the completion of the sentence.
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From the excerpt that you have posted, it seems that the passage is written in a creative style that may not follow grammatical rules exactly to the letter. The first sentence is not strictly grammatical according to formal rules (though it is quite acceptable in the style in which it is intended).
Yes, "higher" means that they climbed higher (or just were higher); "dry" probably means th
Yes, "higher" means that they climbed higher (or just were higher); "dry" probably means th
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