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dangling participle
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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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