WHEN writing, our first line of defense against misplaced modifiers or strays is to always place single-word modifiers beside or nearest to the words they modify. The trickiest misplaced modifiers are the danglers, which usually occur in participial phrases, infinitive phrases, and elliptical adverb clauses. The strategies for avoiding dangling modifiers should be very clear by now:(1) Make the subject of the main clause the logical doer of the action. (3) Combine the dangling phrase and main clause into one. Read this essay and listen to its voice recording in The Manila Times: "Rx for strays, danglers, and squinters"Next, Aug. 10, 2023: Proper and improper use of tense shiftsVisit Jose Carillo's English Forum, http://josecarilloforum.com.
