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hanging participle

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hanging participle

Weakness in sentence structure; see participle.



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It raises so many unanswered questions, so many debating points, so many issues, so many loose ends, so many hanging participles, that it's difficult to know where to start.
Now that was a show that was .. by The Daily Mail (London, England)
5) Suitably reprimanded, he then learned about parsing, split infinitives, hanging participles and non sequiturs.
How dare they snipe at this rare antidote to illiteracy? by The Daily Mail (London, England)
They care about split infinitives, about hanging participles, about lazy punctuation, about royals who say `from my husband and I' when they mean `from my husband and me' (this was when royalty had husbands), about tautologies, about using a
To boldly split, or not to split . . by The Daily Mail (London, England)
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