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dangling_modifier
dangling modifier
English
Noun
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Being over two hundred years old, I had difficulty reading the document. - it is the document that is old, not the reader. |
dangling modifier (plural dangling modifiers)
- (grammar) A word or clause that qualifies another word or clause ambiguously, possibly causing confusion with regard to the speaker's intended meaning.
Translations
word or clause
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See also
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dangling modifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia