Does this sentence begin with a dangling participle?
Is this a dangling participle? If so, is there a way to fix the first clause to eliminate the dangling participle? Should I add the word “When”? Or is it okay as is?
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, how business professionals respond to failure dictates whether they’ll ultimately achieve success.
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Is this a dangling participle? If so, is there a way to fix the first clause to eliminate the dangling participle? Should I add the word “When”? Or is it okay as is?
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, how business professionals respond to failure dictates whether they’ll ultimately achieve success.
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Is this a dangling participle? If so, is there a way to fix the first clause to eliminate the dangling participle? Should I add the word “When”? Or is it okay as is?
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, how business professionals respond to failure dictates whether they’ll ultimately achieve success.
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Is this a dangling participle? If so, is there a way to fix the first clause to eliminate the dangling participle? Should I add the word “When”? Or is it okay as is?
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, how business professionals respond to failure dictates whether they’ll ultimately achieve success.
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The participle is modifying the wrong noun
To illustrate this, I am going to rewrite the sentence slightly:
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, [the method by which] business professionals respond to failure dictates...
In this sentence, "how..." is your subject (a noun clause) and "dictates" is your predicate. As written you are saying that the way business professionals respond is confronted with failure. I imagine you want to have "confronted with failure on a regular basis" modify the business professionals, so here is a rewrite to illustrate that:
How business professionals, confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Now it is more accurate, but reads a bit choppily. Here are some alternates that sound better (in my opinion):
As business professionals are confronted with failure on a regular basis, how they respond to failure dictates...
This one places the noun and predicate our front as its own clause. You could also:
How business professionals, who are confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Finishing the dependent clause with "who are" rather leaving it implicit makes it less choppy in my opinion.
answered 10 hours ago
David CoffronDavid Coffron
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That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
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The participle is modifying the wrong noun
To illustrate this, I am going to rewrite the sentence slightly:
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, [the method by which] business professionals respond to failure dictates...
In this sentence, "how..." is your subject (a noun clause) and "dictates" is your predicate. As written you are saying that the way business professionals respond is confronted with failure. I imagine you want to have "confronted with failure on a regular basis" modify the business professionals, so here is a rewrite to illustrate that:
How business professionals, confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Now it is more accurate, but reads a bit choppily. Here are some alternates that sound better (in my opinion):
As business professionals are confronted with failure on a regular basis, how they respond to failure dictates...
This one places the noun and predicate our front as its own clause. You could also:
How business professionals, who are confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Finishing the dependent clause with "who are" rather leaving it implicit makes it less choppy in my opinion.
answered 10 hours ago
David CoffronDavid Coffron
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That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
10 hours ago
add a comment |
The participle is modifying the wrong noun
To illustrate this, I am going to rewrite the sentence slightly:
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, [the method by which] business professionals respond to failure dictates...
In this sentence, "how..." is your subject (a noun clause) and "dictates" is your predicate. As written you are saying that the way business professionals respond is confronted with failure. I imagine you want to have "confronted with failure on a regular basis" modify the business professionals, so here is a rewrite to illustrate that:
How business professionals, confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Now it is more accurate, but reads a bit choppily. Here are some alternates that sound better (in my opinion):
As business professionals are confronted with failure on a regular basis, how they respond to failure dictates...
This one places the noun and predicate our front as its own clause. You could also:
How business professionals, who are confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Finishing the dependent clause with "who are" rather leaving it implicit makes it less choppy in my opinion.
answered 10 hours ago
David CoffronDavid Coffron
1464
1
That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
10 hours ago
add a comment |
The participle is modifying the wrong noun
To illustrate this, I am going to rewrite the sentence slightly:
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, [the method by which] business professionals respond to failure dictates...
In this sentence, "how..." is your subject (a noun clause) and "dictates" is your predicate. As written you are saying that the way business professionals respond is confronted with failure. I imagine you want to have "confronted with failure on a regular basis" modify the business professionals, so here is a rewrite to illustrate that:
How business professionals, confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Now it is more accurate, but reads a bit choppily. Here are some alternates that sound better (in my opinion):
As business professionals are confronted with failure on a regular basis, how they respond to failure dictates...
This one places the noun and predicate our front as its own clause. You could also:
How business professionals, who are confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Finishing the dependent clause with "who are" rather leaving it implicit makes it less choppy in my opinion.
answered 10 hours ago
David CoffronDavid Coffron
1464
The participle is modifying the wrong noun
To illustrate this, I am going to rewrite the sentence slightly:
Confronted with failure on a regular basis, [the method by which] business professionals respond to failure dictates...
In this sentence, "how..." is your subject (a noun clause) and "dictates" is your predicate. As written you are saying that the way business professionals respond is confronted with failure. I imagine you want to have "confronted with failure on a regular basis" modify the business professionals, so here is a rewrite to illustrate that:
How business professionals, confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Now it is more accurate, but reads a bit choppily. Here are some alternates that sound better (in my opinion):
As business professionals are confronted with failure on a regular basis, how they respond to failure dictates...
This one places the noun and predicate our front as its own clause. You could also:
How business professionals, who are confronted with failure on a regular basis, respond to failure dictates...
Finishing the dependent clause with "who are" rather leaving it implicit makes it less choppy in my opinion.
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That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
10 hours ago
add a comment |
1
That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
10 hours ago
1
1
That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
That is exactly what people who complain about dangling participles mean by dangling. "A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier[1] is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. " (Wikipedia)
– Colin Fine
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
10 hours ago
@ColinFine I've always seen dangling used to refer to a phrase modifying no word, with misplaced referring to when it modifies a different word
– David Coffron
10 hours ago
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