ACTIVITY 5: DON'T DANGLE YOUR PARTICIPLES!

Do this. Rewrite the following sentences to correct the daging or misplaced participal phrase

1. having finished the assignment, the TV was turned on.

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2. placed in a tiny bundle, we left the newspapers at the door.

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3. grazing in the grass, the women observed the cow.

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4. wishing I could sing, the high notes seems to taunt me.

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5. hiking the trail, the birds chirped loudly.

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DAPAT SAGOTAN NINYO PO ITO NG TAMA PLEASE KO PO KASI MALAPIT NA ITO IPASA KUNG HINDI SASAGOT NG TAMA NONSENSE EH REPORT KO PO KAYO.

Having finished the assignment, Jill turned on the TV. “Having finished” is an opening participial phrase expressing action, but, while the doer is not immediately identified in the phrase, it is clearly intended to be taken as the subject of the main clause that follows, Jill. Therefore, this sentence is correct.
After we placed them in a tidy bundle, we left
the first noun phrase to the right (rule 2) is not the one the writer intended to be the subject. She wanted to say the cows were grazing on the grass, not the women.
The high notes are the only subject in the sentence, so the participial phrase "wishing I could sing" attaches to that noun because it doesn't want to dangle. That makes a sentence that says the high notes wish I could sing. If they were capable of wishing, they might wish I could sing, but what I'm really trying to say in that sentence is
The birds are the only subject in the sentence, and they directly follow the participial phrase. The participial phrase has to grab on to something, so it grabs the only subject—the birds. So what that sentence says is that the birds were hiking the trail, and that's probably not what I mean. There was probably somebody hiking the trail and hearing the birds chirping loudly.

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1. “Having finished” is an opening participial phrase expressing action, but, while the doer is not immediately identified in the phrase, it is clearly intended to be taken as the subject of the main clause that follows, Jill. Therefore, this sentence is correct.

2. we would go back to the newspapers so that other people would not get.

3. When they stepped outside, the buffalo were grazing near the pond.

4. There are lots of different voice types, or vocal “fachs,” out there. Many people are familiar with the term “soprano,” which denotes a high female voice.

5. Hiking the trail, the birds chirped loudly. The birds are the only subject in the sentence, and they directly follow the participial phrase. The participial phrase has to grab on to something, so it grabs the only subject the birds. Hiking the trail, Squiggly and Aardvark heard birds chirping loudly.