English Grammar (A.K.A. "Pedantry")

[snabbott]

This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

(Posted on: October 24, 2011, 09:59:14 PM)

Why at the ends of sentences should participles not come? ... I think you are misunderstanding the nature of the dreaded dangling participle! A dangling participle is one which is gingerly placed at the beginning of the sentence yet does not modify the subject or one which is slowly forced to the end of the sentence (usually by other intervening modifiers and their modifiers) far away from the noun it actually modifies (often with other nouns intervening... and thus essentially advancing their candidacy to be the subject of the participle ). cf: dangling modifier

Blame it on Dangling Participle.
DP: Know it I do! Where are you going to?