dangling participle
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| Dangling modifiers and cliches trouble some of the sentences. Many instructors order Writing handbooks--all of them pretty similar in content--and hope that red marks on assignments will lead the bewildered student to open the handbook to figure out how to undangle, for example, dangling modifiers. Colleague Kathleen Much forwards the opinion that "it may be time to discuss dangling modifiers again. |
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