Re: dangling?/providing the tenant a higher status

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 8:19:15 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>
 Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh navi:
>
 > 1) Sharecropping is not to be conflated with tenant farming,
providing
 > the tenant a higher economic and social status.
 >
 > Source:
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
 >
 > Which provide the tenant with a higher economic and social status?
 >
 > I think the phrase at the end of the sentence is dangling. Would you
 > agree?
 >
 > Maybe the writer is trying to cram too much information into a
sentence!
>
For me it’s ungrammatical, with its mixture of the present tense with
the
present progressive. It also lacks clarity and I suspect was a casualty
of the
editing process in Wikipedia.

         >>>      not to be confused
         the word was replaced with [conflated]  because
                  it sounded more Sophomoric...  typical WP wording
Navi will get more out of ths ,  if he/she
tries to improve it.
_________________ [dangling]  means  something else.
A dangling modifier is a word or phrase that describes a word that isn't
clearly stated in a sentence. This grammatical error can make the
meaning of a sentence unclear.
Here are some examples of dangling modifiers:
Incorrect:          "By providing students the opportunity to interact
with each other, they become more interested and motivated".