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Old Oct 16, 2016, 10:03 am
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Originally Posted by Alfonso XIV
And a blatant grammatical error in that last paragraph, to boot!



A participial phrase that introduces a sentence MUST refer to the grammatical subject of the sentence. Somehow Strunk and White have stayed with me all these years.

USAIR, thy participle is dangling.
The use of "has to" rather than "must" in a formal business letter isn't good usage either.
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