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Do you know what's wrong in this sentence?
Growing up in Minnesota, one of my favorite things was going to the state fair each summer and watching the guy who would guess your weight within 5 pounds. -- "Losing Weight in the Gulf," Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, Dec. 12.
The participle at the beginning of the sentence is dangling -- hanging out there the way Wile E. Coyote does when he runs out of cliff while chasing Road Runner. A participle phrase at the beginning of a sentence should modify the subject of the sentence. But "growing up in Minnesota" doesn't describe "one of my favorite things." It was meant to describe the writer himself.
Read more!Full post as published by Triangle Grammar Guide on December 13, 2007 (boomark / email).
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