Why We Shouldn't Dangle The Participle

I remembered when I studied about dangling. Some experts said we must avoid dangle participle. Why? It's simply because dangling participle is ruining you. According to Wikipedia (2015):  Dangling is ambiguous grammatical construct, whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended or with no particular word at all. Then again, I recently found a joke regarding dangling participle on the internet. Here goes...

On his 69 birthday, a man was given a certificate from his wife. The certificate was for consultation with an Indian man living on a nearby reservation, and was rumored to have a simple medicine for erectile dysfunction.

The husband then went to the reservation and met that man. Couple hours of consultation, the old indian man gave him a potion and, with a grip on his shoulder, warned  “This is a powerful medicine. You take only a teaspoonful, and then say: ‘1…2…3.’ When you do, you will become more manly than you've ever been in your life, and you can perform for as long as you want.”

The man thanked the old Indian, and as he walked away, he turned and asked: “How do I stop the medicine from working?” “That’s easy. Ask your partner to say ‘1…2…3…4.’ He responded. “But when she does, the medicine will not work again until the next full moon.”

As his dream to be more manly like he used to be almost comes true, he went home quickly, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine, and then invited his wife to join him in the bedroom. He did some exercise while waiting his wife...

When she came in, he took off his clothes and said: “1…2…3!” Immediately, he was becoming the manliest man on earth. His wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes, and asked: “Honey, what was the 1…2…3... for?”

Voila!

And the old man be like...

And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition, because we could end up with a dangling participle.

Reinforcement

Tidak masalah berapa kali kita gagal.

Tidak penting berapa kali kita hampir berhasil.

Kecewa karena gagal itu masih jauh lebih baik daripada menyesal tanpa melakukan sesuatu.

Yang perlu kita lakukan adalah belajar dari kegagalan itu.

Belajar dari orang-orang di sekitar, yakinlah kalau kita pun bisa bangkit.

Janganlah takut dengan kegagalan, karena jalan menuju kesuksesan adalah dengan selalu mencoba satu kali lagi.

Dan ketika kita mencapainya, semua yang tidak tahu kisahmu hanya bisa berkata... Betapa beruntungnya kamu.

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Nobody

Nobody can say goodbye
Not even wants to try
As time passes by
Nobody can say goodbye

You’re what I call home
Pretty as poems of rome
Grasp you in my arm

Embrace it in warm

When it gets through the dawn
You’re gone
Only your voice leading me on
When it gets through the dawn

Love is as deep as ocean
Too hard to carry on
Since you’re gone
Everything goes wrong

Nothing’s won

Nobody wants it to end
Doing what we can
Losing the pain
Nobody wants it to end

Promise

It was nice and chill December
Sea breeze drifting over

Stars are blinking

Words are hanging

Silence was only our language

I made a promise

You made a promise

We made a promise

Not to fall apart

Not to let each other down

Not to give up on hopes

To keep each other’s company

To be benign
To be calm

To let it linger

In a blink of an eye

The tales go the other way around

In a blink of an eye

Leaves start falling

Blossoms start blooming

2020

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