Now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about dangling participles. This most famous of danglers is must-know stuff for any self-respecting smarty-pants. Not because the concept will help ...

Now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about dangling participles. This most famous of danglers is must-know stuff for any self-respecting smarty-pants. Not because the concept will help ...

READING THIS sentence, it may occur to you that something is slightly awry with it. Or you may not notice anything wrong at all. The first three words are a “dangling modifier”. This writing fault has ...

This most famous of danglers is must-know stuff for any self-respecting smartypants. Not because the concept will help your writing all that much. Many people write just fine without the first clue ...

You may have heard of "dangling participles," but knowing that you should avoid those doesn't much help if you're not sure what a participle is to begin with. So here's a quick guide:A participle is ...

Okay, now we're going to tackle the dangling participle. A participle is the form of the verb that has ing on the end of it. And when you begin a sentence with a participle, that phrase has to modify ...

The grammar quiz for this week was based on a quote from an NBC correspondent named Jaime Gangelle, who was interviewing an actor named Terrence Howard on March 18, 2007, at 8:50 a.m. on Channel 7.

Consider this sentence, which I heard on Channel 2 on Feb. 3, 2006, at 3:30 p.m. The narrator/presenter was preparing the audience for another episode of "Broadway, the American Musical," which dealt ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. “After beating Jankovic in 60 minutes in the semifinals, Stosur’s parents and two brothers flew in from Australia to watch ...

Danglers come in many forms. (From a notice found in a hotel room in Los Angeles: "As one of our valued guests, we are excited to invite you to one of a kind ‘La Nuit.’ ”) What are they dangling from?