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.
1640s, during, in the process of, preposition formed from root of French pendant during, literally hanging, present participle of pendere to hang, to suspend (see pendant). Meaning patterned on a secondary sense of Latin pendente not decided, literally hanging, in legal phrase pendente lite while the suit is pending.. Use of the present participle before nouns caused it to be regarded as a preposition. As an adjective from 1797.