Complete Definition of "dangling modifier"

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dangling modifier
#grammar a word or clause that modifies another word or clause ambiguously, possibly causing confusion with regard to the speaker's intended meaning.
#:Example: Being over two hundred years old, I had difficulty reading the document. - it is the document that is old, not the reader.

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