ALL meanings of dangling participle
dan·gle par·ti·ci·ple
D d - noun dangling participle a participle intended to modify a noun but having the wrong grammatical relationship to it as for example having left in the sentence Having left Europe for good, Peter's future seemed bleak indeed 3
- noun dangling participle a participle or participial phrase, often found at the beginning of a sentence, that appears from its position to modify an element of the sentence other than the one it was intended to modify, as plunging in Plunging hundreds of feet into the gorge, we saw Yosemite Falls. 1
- noun dangling participle (grammar) Any participle used as a dangling modifier. 0