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 ...

The new documentary "Rebel with a Clause" opens Thursday at Digital Gym Cinema. The film follows Ellen Jovin as she takes her pop-up grammar table on a road trip across 50 states, navigating dangling ...

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 ...

In school we were taught never to write sentences containing dangling participles. Example: Crossing the street a tree was seen. Lo and behold, in his recent “Here’s a new twist on old standby: I’ll ...

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 ...