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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Other.
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.
What are a few examples of social psychology classes and their differences?
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in American english.
What’s the name of the show Tim Whatley?
What did Tim Whatley create in PBS, before he changed the name to Whatley?
One (DICTIONARY.) Who
- was John Smith? (com) a certain (often used in naming someone else unknown or undescribed)
How can I find out what other comment I’m reading on etymonline? I didn’t find anything too useful in that specific meaning of ‘one’, but it’s interesting that one derives from old English ‘ans’ which is an older form of ‘a’.
One (n.)
c. 1200, from Old English an (adjective, pronoun, noun) “one,” from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (source also of Old Norse einn, Danish een, Old Frisian an, Dutch een, German ein, Gothic ains), from PIE root *oi-no, “one, unique. Was
Tim Whatley originally used to legally specify that he was just one of several possible Tim Whatleys?
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Asked on March 7, 2021 in Single word requests.
If websites
on negotiation are to be believed that kids have professional negotiation instincts.
When is the best idea to strike out first and strike high? Among the negotiating parties, the anchor is a first sum on the table. The article shoud, unsurprisingly, suggest negotiating parties ask for a higher sum than they would take to be ready to take. What is anchoring bias in education?
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
Transgressor may work.
Dictionary. What are some good definitions for dictionary. Transgress verb used with object
transgress
verb to pass over or go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.): to transgress bounds of prudence.What is your opinion on this article and why?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
How do I really speak English fluently?
We don’t use want with a that -clause:
> I want to tidy your room before the visitors
come. See also the Cambridge Dictionary entry for want : > Warning: I don’t use want with a that -clause: I want you to tidy your room before the visitors come.
Doyou want to get to tidy yourroomon a Saturday?
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