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How to correct dangling constructions? Look at this sentence: "Reaching the station, the sun came out." The author is reaching the station, but in this sentence it seems that "the sun" is reaching the station :) How can we correct sentences like this? How many ways we have to correct them?

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There is no way anyone can interpret this as the sun reaching the station. The sentence is perfectly clear and doesn't need correcting.
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You clearly don't know anything. It is called dangling construction and DOES need correcting. The correct way to avoid misinterpretation is: While I was reaching the station, the sun came out. That's how it's teached guys, we haven't invented it. Greetings.
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I do agree with the comments above. Raeching the station'... means that as i was approaching the station the sun came out. maybe the staion is located on a hill so that when you get near it, it seems like that the sun is rising.
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I disagree with your interpretation, as the most expected meaning has priority over an ambiguous syntax; the meaning immediately points out the existence of an implicit subject; if you intend to mean an unusual meaning, then you should say everything clearly, like: While the sun was reaching the station, it came out. I believe there his a non stated agreement between writer and reader, that allows implicit parts only where the meaning is in the realm of usual expectations; with this in mind the dangling constructions are safe. Is the tower of Pisa a dangling construction ?

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