When I was a kid, the “Do as I say, not as I do” school of parenting reigned supreme. Those adults lecturing children on the dangers of smoking? Smokers, one and all. Kids would get in big trouble for ...

A sentence fragment is part of a sentence set off as if it were a complete sentence: Because I didn't care. Being an accident. Although he asked again. Although they're common in speech they should be ...

A dangling expression is one that doesn’t fit logically into the rest of the sentence. It “dangles” — often because it’s a verb phrase in search of a subject which never turns up. Consider these ...