Tag: dangling modifiers

• The Red Pen: Dangling Modifiers

  

  Dangling: good for trained soldiers in rescue missions, bad for modifiers. Pardon me, but your modifier appears to be dangling…. Dangling or misplaced modifiers are feats of grammatical ambiguity that can create awkwardness for writers. A modifier is a phrase, clause or word that provides description in a sentence. Dangling or misplaced modifiers occur when…

  Merry Gordon

  January 2, 2018

  The Red Pen: Five-Minute Easy Edits

  dangling modifiers, editing, grammar, sentences, syntax