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 word ...

A major quality of good communication is clarity. You should always speak and write in a way that will make the listener or reader to be able to understand your message with little or no hassles.

READING THIS sentence, it may occur to you that something is slightly awry with it. Or you may not notice anything wrong at all. The first three words are a “dangling modifier”. This writing fault has ...