I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...

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I welcome you back to the class with the above question. For clarity’s sake, we restructure it thus: The couple got wed on Saturday. The couple got wedded on Saturday.Now, which is correct — or wrong?

READING THIS sentence, it may occur to you that something is slightly awry with it. Or you may not notice anything wrong at all. The first three words are a “dangling modifier”. This writing fault has ...

I saw you working hard. I appreciate you working hard. At a glance, these sentences seem grammatically identical. But in fact, the grammar of the second one is wildly ...

Made entirely from old classroom instructional films Dangling Participle offers a wealth of practical advice on contemporary sexual hangups and where they come from ...