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Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers: How To Avoid This Unseemly Grammatical Mishap

If there’s one thing that separates a pretty decent writer from a really good writer, it’s knowing how to AVOID dangling or misplacing modifiers. Although it’s a common mistake, dangling your modifiers in public is absolutely frowned upon (and can Read more…


The Cardinal Sin of Punctuation: The Comma Splice

One of my favorite books about grammar is Eats, Shoots & Leaves. In one chapter, the author (Lynne Truss) enumerates the many different roles of a comma and, after all that, reveals “the big final rule for the comma”: She Read more…