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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
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to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic...

1dangle
3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]

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Hi, 1 dangle 3 : to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier> Let's look at the example. The cabin was not 'climbing the mountain', although the grammar suggests that it was. We are not told, in the sentence, who was climbing the mountain.

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  • Hi, 1 dangle 3 : to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier> Let's look at the example.
  • The cabin was not 'climbing the mountain', although the grammar suggests that it was.
  • We are not told, in the sentence, who was climbing the mountain.
  • Such an 'unattached' phrase is said to be a 'dangling modifier'.
  • It just 'hangs from the sentence' ( dangles ).
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Hi,

1dangle
3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier>

Let's look at the example. The cabin
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