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EntityQ2135518· pop 6· linked from 21 articles

dangling modifier

Also known as dangling participle, hanging participle

type of misplaced grammatical phrase

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grammatical modifier

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English usage controversies Syntactic entities

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wikipedia.externallinksexternallink

International Standard Book Number

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Wayback Machine

digital object identifier

Richard II of England

Library of Congress Control Number

colloquial language

Merriam-Webster

descriptive linguistics

death from laughter

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What links here21 pages

double entendre

garden-path sentence

analytic language

absolute construction

English adjective

syntactic ambiguity

grammatical modifier

Plains Indian Sign Language

uses of English verb forms

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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).

ambiguous grammar

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coordinate compound sentence

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adverbial clause

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genitive construction

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