dangling participle

English

Examples
present participle: "Waking the men, the corpse was immediately rolled up in the strips of blanketing upon which it lay, and carried on deck." — Herman Melville (It is not the corpse that woke the men.) past participle: "Built in 1871, there are said to be dozens of spirits that haunt this hospital building." (The spirits were not built in 1871: the hospital was.)

Noun

dangling participle (plural dangling participles)

1. (grammar) Any participle used as a dangling modifier.

   Synonym: dangler (informal)

   Hypernyms: dangling modifier, dangler (informal)

Translations

participle used as a dangling modifier

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垂懸分詞 / 垂悬分词 (zh) (chuíxuán fēncí)

• Finnish: väärä lauseenvastike