by Assistant | Feb 19, 2018 | editing, News, Tips, Writing
In my Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, I address the myth that writers should never start a sentence with a conjunction (and, or, nor, because, for, yet, so, since, unless, until). But I recently heard that there’s a new “rule” floating around in the...
by Kathy Ide | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog
When you begin a sentence with a modifying word or phrase, the subject of the sentence is what must be modified by that word or phrase. A “dangling modifier” is a phrase that does not clearly and sensibly modify the appropriate word. EXAMPLE #1: Changing...
