dangling participle

(thing) by Lord Brawl Sun Jan 23 2000 at 4:48:11
A participle is dangling when the subject of the verb and the subject of the sentence do not agree.

"Noding into the night, IvyNeko's stomach rumbled." The subject is IvyNeko's stomach, but IvyNeko's stomach isn't doing the noding.
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