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Old 01-14-2012, 09:00 PM
Titchou Titchou is offline
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Originally Posted by Leslie Anne View Post
If you're going to use a quote from Random House to defend your dangling participle you might want to use the entire quote. You conveniently left out the following:

Most usage guides warn against the dangling participle and usually suggest revising any sentence that has one.
Which means you can use it but they prefer you didn't.....the "usually" giving one the "out."