Wednesday, October 30, 2013

grammaticality - What’s wrong with this “As a” sentence?

I frequently see statements in the form of this one:





As a skilled computer programmer, this new language is crap.




I think that’s ungrammatical, but can’t explain why. I think it’s because the part before the comma doesn’t correctly attach to the second part.



I would rewrite it,





As a skilled computer programmer, I find this new language to be crap.




Because I think the first part has to attach to “I” or the verb “find”, which is done by the subject “I.”



Please educate me and others.

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