Is "based on" a dangling modifier?

Mr. TomIs "based on" a dangling modifier?

The question should be “Is ‘based on the medical report’ a dangling modifier?” (not just “based on”). The answer is no. It’s fine.

Not that I am all that bothered by dangling modifiers, but I'd say it was.

'I', the subject of the sentence, is not based on the medical report.

Thanks!!

How do you find the following sentence, AG? Natural?

Based on the medical report, you are pregnant.

PS: I went through my many dictionaries and checked the use of "based on"; most of the sentences seemed dangling to my non-native eyes.

Sorry, fivejedjon -- I didn't see you there.

Tom

No problem. The more the merrier.

fivejedjonI'd say it was.
'I', the subject of the sentence, is not based on the medical report.

We seem to have rather different understandings of the term “dangling”. No one for a moment would interpret the subject of the expression in question as that of the main clause. In fact, no subject is understood at all: we understand it to mean “On the basis of

Aspara Gus. No one for a moment would interpret the subject of the expression in question as that of the main clause.

Well, few but the pedant would interpret the subject of Being desperately poor, paper was always scarce as that of the main clause.

Dangling participles have annoyed the purist for years, but most native speakers dangle away to

fivejedjonThe same logic that refuses to accept your 'being poor' must surely apply to 'based on the medical report'. On the other hand, if common sense allows us to interpret 'based on a medical report' as the writer intended it, then common sense should allow us to interpret 'being poor'.

Maybe I should have expanded on that last example. Common sense does a

Aspara Gus. Common sense does allow us to us to interpret being desperately poor as intended, but unlike based on the medical report it is likely to throw the reader off for a moment, since one would expect to find the missing subject in the main clause. So I’d say only the former should be avoided in careful writing.

Aren't you making the whole thing too subj

fivejedjon "I might be confused by this so it's not acceptable. I wouldn't be confused by that, so it's acceptable".

This is not my reasoning at all, and I never said it was unacceptable (nor do I think it is). What I said is that it should be avoided in careful writing. Taken in isolation, Being desperately poor, paper was always scarce is unclear in t