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 ...

In school we were taught never to write sentences containing dangling participles. Example: Crossing the street a tree was seen. Lo and behold, in his recent “Here’s a new twist on old standby: I’ll ...

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 ...

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 ...