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DANGLING MODIFIERS. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993



DANGLING MODIFIERS

which include dangling phrases of various kinds—dangling gerunds, dangling infinitives, dangling participles, and just plain danglers—as well as misplaced or misrelated modifiers, are much criticized but much used and frequently unnoticed too.

This sort of usage gaffe is most likely to be noticed in Formal writing, less so in speech, and particularly less so at the lower levels of speech. Dangling modifiers of all sorts have long managed to get by in the best English and American literary company without being noticed.



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