Here's a grab bag of gifts for those who want to remove common errors from their writing. Common error No. 1: Misuse of a plural verb. "In the end, neither the ...

“A widower for six months, drinking has become his means of forgetting.” The sentence was plucked from a taster for ABC’s ...

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 ...

My friend Peter Page builds high-rises. He knows that if he were to put a beam in the wrong place, the whole thing could come down. In a much less dramatic, costly and dangerous way, a misplaced word ...

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 ...