Don't dangle your participle

By Vanita Oelschlager

Subjects: Juvenile literature, English language, Verb, Grammar, Participle

Description: Words and pictures show children what a dangling participle is all about. Young readers are shown an incorrect sentence that has in it a dangling participle. They are then taught how to make the sentence read correctly. The dangling participle loses its way and the children learns how to help it find its way back to the correct spot in the sentence.