Now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about dangling participles. This most famous of danglers is must-know stuff for any self-respecting smarty-pants. Not because the concept will ...

Time (tense) is indicated by the helping verb. The -ing participle alone cannot be the complete verb because it does not indicate the time of the action. Some teachers refer to the -ing participle as ...

Danglers, which include dangling participles, are typified in sentences like “Walking down the beach, my shoulders got sunburned.” Clearly, the writer didn’t mean to suggest that his ...

And when you begin a sentence with a participle, that phrase has to modify the subject of the sentence. For instance, Looking up, I noticed I was late. That's an example of a well-formed sentence. ...