what does dangling participle mean?
DANGLING PARTICIPLE as NOUN
- Meaning
- a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country” in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view”
Hypernyms(s) dangling participle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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