Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Everything
2
dangling participle
(
thing
)
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
.
Participle
Subject/verb agreement: It's what's for breakfast
Misplaced modifier
Dangling preposition
Florida statute regarding public nudity
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
...
grammar
Everything2 as a pedagogical tool
split infinitive
Cramer's Rule
Trailing preposition
Adderall
Genitive
Noding
Stanley Kubrick
Bun E. Carlos
Style, grammar, and context
misplaced clause
chafing dish
House of Dark Shadows
Writing and publishing
Queued Reading
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