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 ...

When he was teaching journalism, he found that the dangling modifier was the most common grammar mistake he encountered. Fortunately, most danglers are easily fixed.

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 strengths.