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Dangling Phrases and Clauses
When phrases or clauses are misplaced in a sentence such that they don’t agree with the subject, sometimes funny or even embarrassing meanings and images will result. Danglers are difficult for us to spot when we write them because we can’t always see that what we have written is not what we meant to express.
Example: While walking across the street, the bus hit her.
Did the bus really walk across the street?
Correction: While she was walking across the street, the bus hit her. OR
The bus hit her while she was walking across the street.
Example: I have some pound cake that Mollie baked in my lunch bag.
Did Mollie actually bake the pound cake in my lunch bag?
Correction: In my lunch bag, I have some pound cake that Mollie baked.
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Wordplay
 Now that you are alerted to danglers, perhaps you will be able to appreciate some of the bloopers below even more. Thank you to Hu O. for sending these.
Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
Don’t let worry kill you off—let the Church help.
Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
For practice, try rewriting any or all of these five bloopers so that what is written is what the writer intended to express.
Learn all about who and whom, affect and effect, subjects and verbs, adjectives and adverbs, commas, semicolons, quotation marks, and much more by just sitting back and enjoying these easy-to-follow lessons. Tell your colleagues (and boss), children, teachers, and friends. Click here to watch.
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