The finest misplaced modifiers virtually sabotage the meaning of the surrounding thoughts. When I first started writing about these lacerated locutions, I naively declared that the classic example ...

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Other examples contained modifiers that were “dangling” in the sense that they referred to the speaker/writer, who does not appear as a noun phrase in the sentence.

Clarity in writing includes form, not just words.

The May 29 news article “Sponsors pull out of Puerto Rican Day Parade” said, “Earlier this year, after serving more than 35 years in prison, President Barack Obama commuted [Oscar] Lopez ...

Yes, squinting (or ambiguous, as they’re sometimes called) modifiers are misplaced words or phrases whose placement in a sentence is such that they could refer to one or two parts of the sentence.

Nominalizations are grammatical, and a lot of adjectives and verbs have noun forms, but using nominalizations can occasionally lead to terrible writing.

The phrase “through the living room window” is a classic example of a misplaced modifier — a word or phrase that, like the airborne snow itself, lands in the wrong place.

More strictly, a dangling modifier is one in which the word it's modifying is missing in the sentence, whereas a misplaced modifier is one that is placed far away from the word it is supposed to ...