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 ...

I have been traveling lately, and my word preoccupation rarely takes a vacation. I am not saying this is normal. The "when flashing" part of this sign is called a dangling participle. The dangling ...

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 ...

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.

Danglers are an extremely important language concept. Not so much for writers as for jokesters. Danglers in writing and speech don’t necessarily hurt the reader ...

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 ...

I wouldn’t know a participle from a hole in the ground, but I know what a dangling participle is; or, at least, I recognise one when I see one, having had them pointed out to me so often. It’s when ...

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 ...