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John121 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Participle clause subject advice needed

Hi And thanks for reading this post.

I am trying to find the reason for errors in writing. This is the work with the error:

Being a guy,

*it is hard for him to understand her point of view.

Having heard this before,

*her patience was wearing thin.

Being very rational,

*speaking frankly was a very important to him.

Wounding like an arrow,

*he sometimes hated to hear the truth.

Mentioned as constructive criticism,

*there were no hard feelings.


The explanation is that:

When a participle clause is placed before a clause, the understood subject of the participle clause should be the same as the subject of the main clause. An error commonly occurs with a main-clause subject it or there, as shown


Can you please explain the rule involved here and how to correct it. I have no idea.


Thanks

  

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john121 This is the work with the error: More than one error, I'd say. john121 Can you please explain the rule involved here and how to correct it. I have no idea.

— CalifJim

  • john121 This is the work with the error: More than one error, I'd say.
  • john121 Can you please explain the rule involved here and how to correct it.
  • I have no idea.
  • Let's just take a few.
  • They all work the same way.
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john121This is the work with the error:

More than one error, I'd say.

john121Can you please explain the rule involved here and how to correct it. I have no idea.

Let's just take a few. They all work the same way. Note below that the meaning of the original sentence is weird, but the meaning of the correction is f

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Google "misplaced modifier" or "dangling modifier."

Here are good resources:

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/misplacedmodifier.htm

See the "dangling modifier" section:

https://webapp

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Hi! Thanks, that really cleared it up.

Can you please tell me, i read something which puzzled me, and i have lost the web page the description was on,

it said Phrases that describe should be placed close to what they describe.

Can you expand on this, is there a manner in which these phrases should be laid out.

Many thanks.

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Yes, thank you, i did.

This is a new question nothing to do with participles.

I am wanting to know about descriptive phrases. Can you please help. Or should i start a new post?

Thanks!

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Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

I have been doing the participle thing a different way, because of harry potter.

In one of jk's books she writes about two men walking along: " The high hedge curved into them, running off into the distance beyond the pair of imposing wrought-iron gates barring the men’s way."

She is stating that the men were runing off into the dista

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Can you please expand. i thought as " they " is the last pronoun mentioned before the comma, then they are doing the running

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