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I don’t remember many grammar lessons from junior high school, but for whatever reason, one sentence from the lesson about dangling and misplaced modifiers has stuck with me. Here’s the ...
Danglers shouldn’t bother me as much as they do. In most cases, a dangler is a no-harm-done infraction. But I can’t help it. They get under my skin.
DENVER (AP) _ When a friend's 5-year-old daughter entered my house recently and saw the many styles and colors of beads laid out for making backpack danglers for the new school year, her eyes lit up.
The worst danglers are the ones with the potential to mislead: “A great man, Bob’s dad entered the room.” That’s technically OK if we meant that dad is a great man.
There's been a little kerfuffle lately over danglers. Steven Pinker, who is a noted linguist, said in an article in The Guardian that some dangling modifiers are OK to use — in fact, according ...
This 24-year old MBA student had lost all hope and was depressed, even stopped going to family functions to avoid embarrassmen.
Imagine, if you will, a half-empty parking lot. Now imagine a car in that lot parked diagonally across two spaces. Deliberately. You've been around these parts long enough to know that the parking ...
Danglers, nip slips and side boob: 'Naked and Afraid' blur editor tells all. Hollywood Reporter. Erin Gavin, as told to Michael O'Connell. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:49 PM. Copied; ...