Dangling Modifier
It is such an honor to be with you all tonight, celebrating my dear friend X.
Hi, is the marked phrase considered a dangling modifier in the sentence above?
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mango pen 189 It is such an honor to be with you all tonight, celebrating my dear friend X. Hi, is the marked phrase considered a dangling modifier in the sentence above? No.
- mango pen 189 It is such an honor to be with you all tonight, celebrating my dear friend X.
- Hi, is the marked phrase considered a dangling modifier in the sentence above?
- No.
- The clause celebrating my dear friend X has its non-ambivalent subject "you all".
- celebrating my dear friend X is an adjunct that modifies "you all".
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mango pen 189It is such an honor to be with you all tonight, celebrating my dear friend X.
Hi, is the marked phrase considered a dangling modifier in the sentence above?
No. The clause celebrating my dear friend X has its non-ambivalent subject "you all". celebrating my dear friend X is an adjunct that modifies
0mango pen 189It is such an honor to be with you all tonight, celebrating my dear friend X.
Hi, is the marked phrase considered a dangling modifier in the sentence above?
I wouldn't say so.
The salient interpretation is that the subject of "celebrating" is "you all" together with the speaker.
0mango pen 189dangling modifier
I wouldn't say that, no. I see the sentence as a transformed version of
For me to be celebrating my dear friend X with you all tonight is such an honor.
CJ
(It seems I disagree with others on this thread with regard to the subject of 'celebrating'. It looks to me like the implicit "I" ("me") is celeb
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