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To: pandoraou812; Tax-chick
He was most likely scared of prison & mentally ill.

Is this modifier dangling, too?

10 posted on 02/04/2010 4:15:46 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Compound predicate adjectives ... but the pronoun’s antecedent is unclear.

For the record, I think it’s terrible that the cat was abused, and that the man killed himself.


13 posted on 02/04/2010 4:18:19 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Contrary to what politicians expect us to do, let's stop and think. " ~Thomas Sowell, of course)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Is this modifier dangling, too?

Explain this please.

31 posted on 02/04/2010 6:05:05 PM PST by pandoraou812 (time to dump tar & feathers on DC!)
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