Nancy Pelosi finds the use of dangling participles acceptable, and that’s unacceptable.
Pelosi, at a news conference in San Francisco, said Cheney’s criticism of Democrats was “beneath the dignity of the debate we’re engaged in and a disservice to our men and women in uniform, whom we all support.”
Can you spot the participle, and why it’s dangling?
Hey Nancy, you’re awesome!
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3 responses so far ↓
1 tenacity // Feb 28, 2007 at 6:02 am
Nancy: not awesome. You, on the other hand…
; )
2 Tim // Mar 25, 2007 at 2:23 pm
@vhwycwzd:
Good call. Thanks for stopping in…
3 jen // May 12, 2007 at 8:45 pm
TWG, I am not sure what you’re getting at here. After all, I see no dangling participle– in fact, I see no participle at all. I do, however, see an appositive clause. Could you, perhaps, clarify where you see this snafu?
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