{"id":71743,"date":"2019-08-24T06:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T06:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71743"},"modified":"2019-08-24T06:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T06:32:36","slug":"dangling-participle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/dangling-participle\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangling Participle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A participle which does not have a subject in the sentence is called <strong>a dangling participle or hanging participle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, in <strong><em>Driving down the road, a deer leapt out in front of me<\/em><\/strong>, the participial phrase <em>driving down the road is dangling<\/em>: it has no subject in the sentence. Another example is given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking out of the window, the mountains seemed very close.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though they are not rare in speech, dangling participles are avoided in formal writing because of the possibility of misunderstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A participle which does not have a subject in the sentence is called a dangling participle or hanging participle. For example, in Driving down the road, a deer leapt out in front of me,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[828,829,830],"class_list":["post-71743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dangling-participle","tag-hanging-participle","tag-participle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71744,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71743\/revisions\/71744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}