dangling modifier

English

Noun
Examples

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)

  1. (grammar) A word or clause that qualifies another word or clause ambiguously, possibly causing confusion with regard to the speaker's intended meaning.

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