Can you spot the grammar fail? Misplaced modifiers are like the hairy spider waiting behind the dishwasher door. They creep up on you, in the most unexpected places, and before you know it poor Sarah is smelling like garlic pickles. Here’s a simple trick to eliminate misplaced modifiers from your writing: Remember that whatever comes after the comma is the thing the initial phrase must modify. So, let’s fix this one … Smelling up the entire house, the open jar of garlic pickles stared at Sarah with putrid regret. Ahhh, much better. Now, it’s yet to be determined if pickles can really stare at you with any kind of regret (let alone the putrid variety) but creative license, my friends. #alittlegrammarlesson #littlewordstudio