Dangling Modifiers and How to Fix Them

Strengthen your writing by avoiding this common — and glaring — grammatical error

Karen DeGroot Carter

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Poorly constructed sentences are the bane of proofreaders, copy editors and pretty much any other word nerds out there. Truth is, readers are irritated by poorly constructed sentences as well — whether or not they understand what’s robbing such sentences of their…

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Karen DeGroot Carter

Bylines in Publishers Weekly, Literary Mama, others. One Sister’s Song (novel). Not Nearly Everything You Need to Know About Writing (ebook).