In Gerunds^x, Past perfect^x, Prepositions^x

Hello Casi Hats off to your analysis! Very nice work indeed. Your notion of is something of an enigma. It is the most obviously dangly of structures, when it does dangle; yet its form is seemingly ambiguous. Again, hats off to your analysis! Some fine disentangling. MrP

Hello Komountain, hello Paco I'm sorry, I was a little unclear: I intended the 'reversing clauses' method to be taken simply as a trial by ear. So in sentence 1, for instance, reversing the clauses accentuates the absurdity of the sense. Gerunds and participles are indeed slightly...