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Originally Posted by Titchou
And from Random House:
Constructions that may technically be classified as dangling participles have, however, long been a feature of standard literary English and are today commonplace in speech and edited writing: Looking to the west, a deep river valley can be seen in the distance.
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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.
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