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Miyabi Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Greasy

Hi, everybody!

Pls check my sentence below:

"After cooking, the stove is greasy."

Thank you!
  

Top answer

Yours is a dangling participle. Stoves do not cook; people cook. After cooking, we leave a greasy stove.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yours is a dangling participle.
  • Stoves do not cook; people cook.
  • After cooking, we leave a greasy stove.
  • After we cook, the stove is greasy.
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Yours is a dangling participle. Stoves do not cook; people cook.

After cooking, we leave a greasy stove.

After we cook, the stove is greasy.
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Hi

Hmm, not sure. Cannot "cooking" be taken as a gerund - in which case there is no dangling participle

- After [the activity of] cooking, the stove is greasy

I'm happy to be contradicted..

Dave
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OK, I contradict you, Dave. Trying to take 'cooking' as a gerund or whatever shows that it is confusing. No point in confusing the reader, is there?
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