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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us' ...

It made a touching newspaper photo — a toddler staring inquisitively through a window at his father clearing snow outside. But the photo’s caption described a chilling event: “Two-year-old Jackson ...

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 ...