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participial phrase

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  • Participial phrase — A participial phrase is a participle and its accompanying word or words. A participle phrase modifies a noun or a pronoun. It may contain a direct object and an adverb that modifies the participle. Below are some examples:# Sitting in his office …   Wikipedia

  • phrase — n. 1) to coin; turn a phrase 2) a colloquial; empty; glib; hackneyed, trite; well turned phrase 3) (grammar) a noun; participial; prepositional; verb phrase * * * [freɪz] empty glib hackneyed participial prepositional trite turn a phrase …   Combinatory dictionary

  • participial adjective — /patəsɪpiəl ˈædʒəktɪv/ (say pahtuhsipeeuhl ajuhktiv) noun the English ing form of a verb when used with an adjectival function. Running is a participial adjective in the phrase running water ; gerundive …  

  • phrase — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. expression; sentence, paragraph, clause; figure of speech, euphemism; idiom; locution; motto, maxim. v. t. express, word, term, couch; voice. See figurative, writing, grammar. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

  • Dangling modifier — A dangling modifier, a specific case of which is the dangling participle,[1] is an error in sentence structure whereby a grammatical modifier is associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a …   Wikipedia

  • Citation signal — Introductory signals are used in legal citations to present authorities and show how the authorities relate to propositions in textual statements. A legal writer uses an introductory signal to tell readers how her citation to legal authority… …   Wikipedia

  • dangling modifiers —    are one of the more complicated and disagreeable aspects of English usage, but at least they provide some compensation by being frequently amusing. Every authority has a stock of illustrative howlers. Fowler, for instance, gives us Handing me… …   Dictionary of troublesome word

  • Non-finite verb — In linguistics, a non finite verb (or a verbal) is a verb form that is not limited by a subject and, more generally, is not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense, aspect, mood, number, gender, and …   Wikipedia

  • Valediction — A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, to say farewell ),[1] or complimentary close in American English,[2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message,[3][4] or the act of saying… …   Wikipedia

  • dangling participle — Gram. 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… …   Universalium

  • dangling participle — dan′gling par′ticiple n. gram. use 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… …   From formal English to slang

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