One bedroom apartments in Long Beach rent for $1842 a month on average (a 15.85% decrease from last year) and two bedroom apartment rents average $2448 (a 7.23% decrease from last year).
dangling participle. n. (Grammar) grammar a participle intended to modify a noun but having the wrong grammatical relationship to it as for example having left in the sentence Having left Europe for good, Peter's future seemed bleak indeed.
Dangling Participles. Dangling participles (also known as dangling modifiers) sound more painful than they actually are. Consider the following sentences all of which contain dangling participles or dangling modifiers. In the sentence below, the modifying clause (Rushing to catch the bus) contains a participle (rushing). The participle is said to be dangling because the subject of the main clause (Bob's wallet) is not the thing modified by the initial modifying clause.