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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Answers · 6
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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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