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.
Home Â» The Writerâs Dictionary Â» What is a Dangling Modifier? Definition, Examples of Dangling Modifiers Dangling participle definition: A dangling modifier is a type of misplaced modifier that modifies a word or phrase that is not clearly stated in a sentence. Dangling modifiers are also called dangling participles. What is a Dangling Modifier? A dangling modifier is a type of misplaced modifier. A dangling modifier is misplaced because it does not have anything to modify. The word or words a dangling modifier should modify have been omitted from the sentence. Dangling modifiers make unclear the meaning of a sentence. As you can see from the following examples, the sentences should be restructured to include the words the modifiers describe.