By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy
One of the funnier writing gaffs is the dangling modifier. If you’ve ever read a sentence that feels off and actually gives the impression of something impossible and often hysterical—odds are you’ve caught somebody’s modifier dangling.
Modifiers are words that describe other words, such as adjectives that describe nouns, or adverbs that describe adjectives or verbs. We use them all the time in our writing.