Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Some grammar-checking programs will highlight something and warn you that you have a “squinting modifier.” Squeeze your eyes ...

(CN) - A misplaced modifier in an insurance contract may be a "syntactical sin," but it doesn't require Travelers Insurance to reimburse Payless ShoeSource for a $2.45 million class-action settlement, ...

“A person walking in Mountainside Park . . . called police when she saw two men sitting at a picnic table without any pants.” I knew that picnic tables had legs, but only after reading this newspaper ...

In case you haven’t noticed, newspaper headlines are brimming with sensationalism. Has a wave of lurid crimes and bizarre events swept our fair cities? Nope. In fact, the culprit is none other than ...

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep ...

Late December seems like a pretty good time to take stock of the year’s foremost misplaced modifiers. As always, the thrill is in the hunt. If you keep your eyes and ears open, pretty soon you’ll come ...

I got some entertaining responses to my recent Grammar Police column about gerunds, including a few people who thought my gerund comments were acceptable but tore me apart on other grounds, including ...

President Obama tours a cell block at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., on July 16, 2015. (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The May 29 news article ...

In your June 8 edition, Section 2, page 14, your [Critic’s Choice] Private Fears in Public Places, there is a picture of Mads Mikkelsen accompanying the print. I went and saw the movie last night. He ...