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'.
When a modifier improperly modifies something, it is called a dangling modifier.. This often happens with beginning participial phrases, making dangling participles an all too common phenomenon. In the sentence below, we can't have a car changing its own oil.