Last week, we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here’s a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the ...

The “participle” part of the term dangling participle means the modifying phrase is built on either an “ing” form of a verb or on a past tense form.

Indeed, languages with three forms for present, past and participle have a way of trying to make two things out of three. Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle.