Caption: English professor practical jokes. Man at door: Hey, Vanderhoot- your participle's dangling...ha ha! Made you look!
I would hope the students didn’t get the joke because they’ve never heard of a dangling participle, a peculiar obsession of pedants who thought that, because you can’t do it in Latin, it shouldn’t be allowed. So, dangle with pride.
I would hope the students didn’t get the joke because they’ve never heard of a dangling participle, a peculiar obsession of pedants who thought that, because you can’t do it in Latin, it shouldn’t be allowed. So, dangle with pride.