DANGLING PARTICIPLE as NOUN

  1. 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