Brian J Goggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"It is a remarkable fact that criticism --- and ridicule --- of unattached
>participles did not begin until about a century ago. (")
There are plenty of practices that we have changed for the better in
the last hundred years.
>(")Historical grammarians --- Jespersen, Visser, and others --- and the *OED*
>cite
>clear examples from the Middle Ages onwards."
Good evidence that this particular error has been made for a long
time.
Adrian
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Adrian Stott
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