Beating men, women and children
The night before, Taliban fighters had stormed a crowd waiting outside the terminal, beating men, women and children attempting to flee the country.
[The Washington Post.]
Is beating men, women and children attempting to flee the country a wrong usage of the dangling participle in the sentence above?
I think it is. Who has beaten whom? Is it "the crowd", a word close to the "beating", that have beaten men, women and children or Taliban fighters who did it?
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anonymous Is beating men, women and children attempting to flee the country a wrong usage of the dangling participle in the sentence above? No. It is good English.
- anonymous Is beating men, women and children attempting to flee the country a wrong usage of the dangling participle in the sentence above?
- No.
- It is good English.
- Taliban fighters ran into the crowd and when they did that they were beating the people in the crowd, the men, the women and the children.
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anonymousIs beating men, women and children attempting to flee the country a wrong usage of the dangling participle in the sentence above?
No. It is good English.
Taliban fighters ran into the crowd and when they did that they were beating the people in the crowd, the men, the women and the children.
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