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dangling participleperformance errormisrelated participle absolute participleisolated participle

1 When dining in the restauranta jacket and tie are required 2it Being Christmasthe government offices were closed 3 The siren soundedindicating that the air-raid was over Unknown to his closest advisershe had secretly negotiated with an enemy emissary

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When installing a boilerthe floor space which is available is very important When treating patients with language retardation and deviation of language developmentthe therapy consistsin partof discus- sions of the patients'problems with patients and teacherswith subsequent language teaching carried out by them

5style disjunct atalking ofgetting back tocoming to Getting back to our storythe princess was killed Coming to this questionIsayno

b.putting it mildlyfrankly speakinggenerally speakingroughly speakingbroadly speakingbiologically speaking Putting it mildlyyou have caused us some inconvenience Generally speakingdogs are more faithful to men than cats

cjudging fromaccording toconsideringviewing it fromseeing Judging from his expressionhe is in a bad mood According to Barthesthe author had died Considering the low pricethe car is worth buying dprovidingthat providedthatsupposinggivenif withwantingfailingwithout Provided that a film entertainsfew people care about its other merits Given prudence and patienceanybody can achieve something Supposing this to be truehe is certainly the murderer

eadmitting thatallowed thatallowing forconsideringthatassuming thatseeing thatgranting thatgranted thatnotwithstanding Allowing forConsideringthe deficienciesthe show is a success GrantedGrantingthat you are right you should not get angry AdmittingAssuming Allowingthat he is drunkthat is no excuse

fbarringbatingexceptingexceptedsaving thatincludingcountingsetting aside leavingto one side Barringbatingthis pointI agree with you There are fifteen students countingme Setting aside the question of capitalthis business has many other problems

generally speaking frankly speakingjudging from com ing to details

consideringcountingincludingbarringbatingexceptingexcepted concerningregardingrespectingtouching wantingfailingpendingsaving Considering its costthis machine is not worth buying He asked me questions concerning my health Pending a report from Rancywe'll pro- ceed as planned I know nothing respecting that girl providingthatprovidedthatsavingnotwithstandingseeingconsideringgranting grantedadm ittingassum ingallowingsupposing He was prudent notwithstanding that he was young Granting that he has made a mistakehe is not to blame