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From: "Mitzi Bateman" <>
Subject: Was [DNA] Ancestryby DNA; now Dangling Participles
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:35:06 -0800
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This is a NAR post; but the teacher in me couldn't let it slide. <G>

David wrote:
>Are there a few great great grandparents (for example) who are unaccounted
for
>(regret the dangling participle).

There is no dangling participle in the above sentence. Did I miss
something, or are you referring to the fact that the sentence ends in a
preposition?

Mitzi who knows much more about dangling participles than DNA : )

(We're all ignorant, just in different areas.)



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