[Tom Schmitz]

Since this is a nine-year-old post and since there have been wonderful inventions that have come to market to deal with the problem, I feel free to answer it as I wanted to nine years ago.

Turn signals are like participles. The best way to reattach one is not to have it dangling in the first damn place.

 

[Tom Schmitz]

"Walking into the restaurant, the pizza smelled great."

(It was probably wearing White Shoulders or some such)

A participle is a verb formed from a noun, usually by adding 'ing'. Thus 'walking' is a participle. There are more elaborate ways to describe a participle and more cases that make a participle but, in the interest of brevity, I shall remain imprecise.

A dangling participle is one that has no noun in the text to modify. Often humorously, it may modify an unintended noun that exists in the text. In the above, the sentence describes a pizza that walked into a restaurant emitting a pleasant aroma.

Properly constructed, the above would be "As I was walking into the restaurant, the pizza smelled great."

 

[Tom Schmitz]

That is a dangling participle. The turn signal is said to not dangle if it uses epoxy when it is meant that if YOU use epoxy, the turn signal won't dangle.

That dangling participle also anthropomorphizes turn signals. You should not do that; they hate it when you do.

Your mission was fully and well accomplished!

 

[Tom Schmitz]

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I wish Damocles had thought to mention that. I doubt the OP cares much, though.