The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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He once sent her a brief memo dedicated entirely to the misuse of present participles.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
Anne Carson says: “You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2019
Dr. Hussein came over to rescue us from white space and dangling participles.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2015
The headlines that “win,” according to Spartz’s testing algorithm, are usually hyperbolic, and many of them begin with dangling participles or end with prepositions.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
Us pupils hadn’t gotten to participles, whatever they might be.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
