Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic...
1dangle
3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
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3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
I couldn't understand the above definition. Please help me.
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Hi, 1 dangle 3 : to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier> Let's look at the example. The cabin was not 'climbing the mountain', although the grammar suggests that it was. We are not told, in the sentence, who was climbing the mountain.
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Hi,
1dangle
3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier>
Let's look at the example. The cabin
1dangle
3: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in “Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view”) <a dangling participle> <a dangling modifier>
Let's look at the example. The cabin
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