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 - a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'.
A possibly disconcerted, even irate, reader and an embarrassed junior lexicographer. This type of grammatical faux pas is called a dangling participle (the participle here being âbornâ), otherwise known as a âdanglerâ and (rather less picturesquely) as an âunattachedâ, âmisrelatedâ, or âhangingâ participle.