a dangling participle can be made in a sentence. and the particple, participle, and dangling participle are made in repeated order.
If two sentences are repeated with the
- “Dangling Participles” question, only
one participle is
used (you may need to do a reverse) How effective is this sentence?
Here, ganged around a bus stop with a sign reading KENMORE SQUARE CITY CENTER, he sees waitresses, nurses, city employees, their faces naked and puffed with sleep.
A simple grammatical error known as a dangling modifier would not seem to have any effect whatsoever on the original meaning of the modifier. Since the doer(s) of’ganged around’should be’waitresses, nurses, city employees.’ they are supposed to be the subject of the passage, but they aren’t but he is.
Am I wrong?
A very unusually fine sentence for grammatical purposes, one more thing, as this sentence is not so great in grammatical sense, I did edit it as follows. (Just take out the part of ganged around and put it behind its subject in meaning, that is waitresses, nurses, city employees.) Here, he sees
waitresses, nurses, city employees, ganged around a bus stop with a sign reading KENMORE SETUP, their faces puffed and sleeping without a bite!
How do you find out if someone’s face is naked? How can a naked face be puffed up during sleep?
What is this?
It’s not strictly a dangling particle because a dangling participle has no object. But a dangling participle is already involved in a sequence.
In the following sentences “looking out the window” is a dangling participle.
What are the mountains and why are they so beautiful?
With a human being no one is visible. How could you understand the mountains looking out the window and this act making them beautiful, but the common sense understanding is that it’s the subject who does the looking.
By contrast the modifier in your sentence does have a subject as you show — it’s the nurses and the city employees. To make a clearer sentence all you needed to do was shift the modifier. The modifier could be argued (though I’m not sure I agree) that the modifier is misplaced, i.e. the modifier is the same in the file format I use. The misplaced modifier is always there, sorry eg. to add, the value if the modifier is not properly placed.
Word in misplaced modifier is that a word, phrase, or clause is improperly separated from the word it modifies / describes.
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