Why are misplaced modifiers such a common grammatical error? Plus, what's the difference between a misplaced modifier and a dangling modifier? “A popular destination for cruise ships, tourists flock ...

Proper use of the correlative conjunctions should be as simple as wearing a pair of socks that match. Yet, most of the authors misplace them four times out of five. Such wrong usage is pardonable in ...

In the other week’s column, I joined fellow good English advocate Gerry Galacio in inviting readers to do the exercise of getting rid of the misplaced modifier in this sentence from the companion ...