Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Some grammar-checking programs will highlight something and warn you that you have a “squinting modifier ...

Battling cancer is hard enough for a child. But having to also battle a sibling is simply too much. Such was the conclusion you might draw from reading a headline in a recent story in the Daily Herald ...

I don’t remember many grammar lessons from junior high school, but for whatever reason, one sentence from the lesson about dangling and misplaced modifiers has stuck with me. Here’s the sentence: ...

Questions and comments that I receive usually come from individuals and sometimes couples. This one came from an entire English class: "We are ninth-graders in Mrs. Buie's English class at East ...