Answer: dangling participles/dangling modifiers

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mha_chan wants to know: What are dangling participles, modifiers, etc.?

In short, dangling modifiers (sometimes called misplaced modifiers) are a type of grammatical error that can make your sentences unclear, misleading, or downright silly to the reader. Dangling participles are a subset of dangling modifiers.

( Let's find out more about what they are and how to avoid them, with some help from the students and staff at Hogwarts. )