One bedroom apartments in Long Beach rent for $1842 a month on average (a 15.85% decrease from last year) and two bedroom apartment rents average $2448 (a 7.23% decrease from last year).
dangling participle - a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'.
The antecedentâthat is, the noun to which the participle refersâmust be clear to the readers in order for them to understand what's being said. Otherwise, an action may be subscribed to the wrong player, such as flitting to athletes. That's called a dangling participle, because it's left dangling without a clear antecedent. Just as with compound subject-verb agreement when or links two or more subjects (see above, #9), proximity shows the link between a participle and its antecedent in English.