The Hunger Games
The first Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ novel series, has been very criticized for grammar issues, including sentences like this: “Being the mayor’s daughter, you’d expect her to be a snob, but she’s all right.”
Sarah Chassé finds the issue in this sentence right away. “This is a dangling participle,” she explains.
“The phrase ‘Being the mayor’s daughter’ is improperly referring to ‘you,’ but it should refer to the ‘her’ who isn’t snobby.” Fixing this grammar, she adds, would aid comprehension. The corrected sentence could read: ‘You’d expect her to be a snob, being the mayor’s daughter, but she’s all right.’”
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