Grammar Talk: Modify that Dangler.

Carrie Jones
3 min readApr 30, 2024
Photo by Brennan Burling on Unsplash

It’s a grammatical mistake that causes a lot of issues: dangling modifier.

I mean, seriously, just saying it sounds like a disease: dangling modifier. Ew, right?

Well, these bad boys are some of the biggest, snarkiest, easiest-to-mess up pieces of a sentence.

And when they are in the wrong place? The results can be silly like here:

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Carrie Jones

Internationally & New York Times bestselling novelist. Writing tips. Podcasts. Poems. Psych stuff. www.carriejonesbooks.blog