I won't even tell about the dangling participles that keep slipping up on you.

I still say that's a dangling participle, but okay, leave it in."

These examples illustrate a writing principle that dangling participles violate.

Here is a dangling participle, as well as a peculiar maidenhead.

The dangling participle, a characteristic feature of English, is not used in Danish.

This is because "the next stanza" is interpreted as the subject of the dangling participle.

The work demands sleepless guard duty to prevent the infiltration of dangling participles.

He doesn't know a dangling participle from an adverb."

That was a double dangling participle - hard to do - and it would be wrong to let it slop over to 2000.

She walked back into the living room, constantly aware of the dangling participle distracting her as she moved.

"known as Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b" is a dangling participle that threw me for most of the article.

Once in a seventh-grade English class I stumbled into a nest of dangling participles.

A dangling participle was the eighth deadly sin."

The "Irish bull" is to the sense of a statement what the dangling participle is to the syntax.

Dangling participles should not be confused with clauses in absolute constructions, which are considered grammatical.

"How did you do it, how did you manage to get through to them about the dangling participle?"

No, my fellow Americans, I'm needed here, analyzing, cajoling, satirizing and dangling participles.

The creature was about fifty feet tall, with wide lapels, long dangling participles, and a pronounced gazetteer.

Now: Don't condemn dangling participles when you mean misplaced participles .

"You can learn grammar without using words like dangling participle," Mr. Weinfeld said.

But drawing coherent conclusions from these stories seems to tie her prose in knots of dangling participles and tiresome repetition.

Skip said the suit did a fair job of explaining dangling participles, which turned out to be a kind of South American lizard.

One split infinitive and one dangling participle don't give a grammarian much chance to take advantage of his superior position.

A real intellectual would discuss the bourgeois homogeneity of the declining narrative of capital or something, not dangling participles."

Could advertising's dangling participles and the unrelenting trend of sentence fragments be at the root of our collective information overload?