Sunday, February 10, 2008

"Traversing continents" and "expanding returns"



We’re redefining the boundaries of our minds. Traversing continents and expanding returns.

The above is taken from an advertisement in the STAR of February 4, 2008.

This part consists of a complete sentence and a phrase while the remaining parts of the advertisement are made up of complete sentences.

The sentence and the phrase can be combined in either of the following two way into a complete sentence with the correct grammatical construction showing the same meaning if not better:-

  1. We’re redefining the boundaries of our minds traversing continents and expanding returns.
  2. Traversing continents and expanding returns, we’re redefining the boundaries of our minds.

"Traversing continents" and "expanding returns" are dangling modifiers or misplaced modifiers.


See my earlier posts of February 4 on Faulty sentence and February 5 on Misplaced modifiers.

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