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"I've never heard it given as an all-encompassing rule. I've read about the perils of misplaced modifiers, as with your postman and oil change examples. I've also read that starting too many sentences with present participles will feel repetitive and possibly klunky, and if you find yourself doing it too frequently, you should consider what you are attempting to convey and whether a different sentence structure encompasses it better.\r\n\r\nI don't see any evidence that editors from big trade publishers are telling their authors never to structure sentences this way. I run across plenty of present participles in the trade-published books I read. I think it's a bit like the advice re never ever ever tagging with anything but said--at least somewhat hyperbolic and overstated."
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