I had never heard of Dangling Modifiers before until I read the blog entry that pointed out some which were used in some of the articles. A dangling modifier phrase starts a sentence but it does not contain a subject, and the next phrase either contains no subject or a subject that does not make sense with the phrase preceding. There should be a subject beginning the second phrase (that needs to be an independent clause) in order for the sentence that starts with the dependent clause to make sense. Wow, I understand what a dangling modifier is, but now I'm confused, that's not a good sign.
An example is...I give up. I can't make one up. Well that's good, because it means I don't use them in my writing!!!
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