My friend Peter Page builds high-rises. He knows that if he were to put a beam in the wrong place, the whole thing could come down. In a much less dramatic, costly and dangerous way, a misplaced ...

We're all fallible, though. But misplacing the modifier in this case was particularly embarrassing to the editor who wrote the headline, because sussing out misplaced modifiers is one of her ...

The trouble comes when the modifier “is attached to the wrong subject or where the subject is missing in a sentence,” as the Grammarly website puts it.