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- Dangling_modifier abstract "A dangling modifier (a specific case of which is the dangling participle) is an ambiguous grammatical construct, whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a writer may have meant to modify the subject, but word order makes the modifier seem to modify an object instead. Such ambiguities can lead to unintentional humor or difficulty in understanding a sentence in formal contexts.A typical example of a dangling modifier is illustrated in Turning the corner, a handsome school building appeared. The modifying clause Turning the corner is clearly supposed to describe the behaviour of the narrator (or other observer), but grammatically it appears to apply to nothing in particular, or to the school building. Similarly, in At the age of eight, my family finally bought a dog, the modifier At the age of eight "dangles," not attaching to the subject of the main clause (and possibly implying that the family was eight years old when it bought the dog, rather than the intended meaning of giving the narrator's age at the time).".
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- Dangling_modifier wikiPageID "218169".
- Dangling_modifier wikiPageRevisionID "605806383".
- Dangling_modifier hasPhotoCollection Dangling_modifier.
- Dangling_modifier subject Category:Disputes_in_English_grammar.
- Dangling_modifier subject Category:Syntactic_entities.
- Dangling_modifier comment "A dangling modifier (a specific case of which is the dangling participle) is an ambiguous grammatical construct, whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a writer may have meant to modify the subject, but word order makes the modifier seem to modify an object instead.".
- Dangling_modifier label "Dangling modifier".
- Dangling_modifier label "Zwevende bepaling".
- Dangling_modifier label "懸垂修飾語".
- Dangling_modifier sameAs 懸垂修飾語.
- Dangling_modifier sameAs Zwevende_bepaling.
- Dangling_modifier sameAs m.01fypz.
- Dangling_modifier sameAs Q2135518.
- Dangling_modifier sameAs Q2135518.
- Dangling_modifier wasDerivedFrom Dangling_modifier?oldid=605806383.
- Dangling_modifier isPrimaryTopicOf Dangling_modifier.