|SPECIAL EDITION||UWF WRITING LAB| Pardon Me, But Your
Participle Is Dangling By Helen Richards According to the sixth
edition of Understanding English Grammar by Martha Kolln and
Robert Funk, "the participle can open the sentence only when its
subject is also the subject of the sentence and is located in
regular subject position. Otherwise, the participle dangles."
Present participles are phrases that begin with the -ing form of
the verb such as having finished work early, leaving the job for
someone else, or taking the time to proofread. The participle
acts as a verb and needs a subject to attach itself to. The
problem is that if the participle is not attached to its
subject, the sentence takes on another meaning. Take the
sentence below for example: Me, Myself, and I By Mamie Webb
Hixon When you don't know whether to use I or me, don't use the
reflexive pronoun myself. Myself is not a substitute pronoun for
either I or me. Myself is a reflexive pronoun used as the object
in a sentence when the word to whic