Grammar Sticklers Unite!

arwenelizabeth said:
Congratulations, Hester L.! You're correct. Evening Star is guilty of misplacing his modifiers.

His are a specific kind of misplaced modifier known as dangling participles. (The words "hanging," "flapping," and "coming" are participles; the phrases in which they are contained are known as participial phrases.)

See, isn't this fun?
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Haha, yeah, this is sort of fun. :rolleyes: If only my sitto was here *sigh*. Tehe, instead of playing on the monkey bars during recess, she did diagrams. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, I'm not great at grammar, but, thankfully, I do know the basics. :D
 
arwenelizabeth said:
Evening Star is guilty of misplacing his modifiers.
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There's more than just that! I think what he was trying to get at, was the position of the phrases altogether. Even when separated by a comma, they are supposed to modify the closest noun. Hence, misplaced clauses can accidentally describe something else. I doubt the flower looked lovely when they were coming up the walk and I doubt ES' ears were flapping and his toungue was out while he was driving. His dog's another story.
 
Aitoren said:
There's more than just that! I think what he was trying to get at, was the position of the phrases altogether. Even when separated by a comma, they are supposed to modify the closest noun. Hence, misplaced clauses can accidentally describe something else. I doubt the flower looked lovely when they were coming up the walk and I doubt ES' ears were flapping and his toungue was out while he was driving. His dog's another story.
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That's correct, Aitoren, but the mistake is still generally known as a misplaced modifier. A modifier can be a word or a phrase. His happened to be participial phrases, and they were dangling horribly. (I'm assuming that is what you're referring to when you say "the position of the phrases altogether.")
 
Protofan said:
l0lz!!!@@@22! j00 r 411 n00bz!
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Protofan, I wouldn't say that you're using bad grammar. Your posts are what is known colloquially as "nonsense." I'd report you to a mod, but this is Dufferland and I've got a sneaking suspicion that nonsense is actually allowed here.
 
Protofan said:
l0lz!!!@@@22! j00 r 411 n00bz!
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:rolleyes: ok.. i can kinda tell what you're saying. $p@^^ ^^el(!!!

arwenelizabeth said:
That's correct, Aitoren, but the mistake is still generally known as a misplaced modifier. A modifier can be a word or a phrase. His happened to be participial phrases, and they were dangling horribly. (I'm assuming that is what you're referring to when you say "the position of the phrases altogether.")
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did you, like, teach grammar or something?
 
NOOOOOOO!!!!!! It was my future job to create this thread. :( I had a dream, and it was snatched away right before my eyes. *tear* That's okay. I forgive you. I'm still the one and original grammar police. :eek:
 
Tweetsie said:
NOOOOOOO!!!!!! It was my future job to create this thread. :( I had a dream, and it was snatched away right before my eyes. *tear* That's okay. I forgive you. I'm still the one and original grammar police. :eek:
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Right you are, Tweets. Right you are..:cool: And I'm the grammar police's friend..:)
 
arwenelizabeth said:
That's correct, Aitoren, but the mistake is still generally known as a misplaced modifier. A modifier can be a word or a phrase. His happened to be participial phrases, and they were dangling horribly. (I'm assuming that is what you're referring to when you say "the position of the phrases altogether.")
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Ya, I don't know the right names for all that stuff. I go by ear, not by my English book. Thanks for the clarification.

y00!!! u $P334 lIk d8t nuff? h888!!!!1!!!1!1!1!One! n00 b0d3 3l$e g37$ it.

It's not nonsense, it's... ya...
 
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Aitoren said:
Ya, I don't know the right names for all that stuff. I go by ear, not by my English book. Thanks for the clarification.

y00!!! u sP334 lIk d8t nuff? h888!!!!1!!!1!1!1!One! n00 b0d3 3ls3 g37s i7.

It's not nonsense, it's... ya...
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ok. i have no idea what you said...

and i was just playing around with my keyboard (computer whatever-it's-called).. just fwi..
 
♣Teh Deviant♣ said:
...yes, I dont know the exact terms, either, but I do know when something is wrong in a sentence. :D
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yeah. it's like, 'somethings wrong there.. dont know what though.... *thinks hard* oh well' ;) that's me right there...... ;)
 
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