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A Syntactic Analysis of Dangling Modifiers in English | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 499-509 | ||
| Author | ||
| M.A. Sada Ali Hamid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract The dangling modifiers is a descriptive phrase that implies an actor different from the sentence subject. This paper tries to shed light on dangling modifiers by analyzing it syntactically. It aims at specifying the doer of the action as the subject of the main clause and substituting the phrase that dangles into a complete introductory clause. This work is presented in four sections: section one is an introduction which subsumes the problem investigated, objective of the study, limits of the study and the procedures. Section two is devoted to some studies that are related to this paper. Section three deals with types of dangling modifiers. It includes dangling modifiers in participial phrases constructions, dangling modifiers in infinitive phrases, dangling modifiers in gerund phrases constructions and dangling modifier in elliptical clauses. Section four includes the conclusions and recommendations. | ||
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