It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

We're an additional $50,000 over budget even before we start,

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

The option year to me was like a dangling participle.

The option year to me was like a dangling participle,

A pandemic is unique among disasters. It could happen in 5,000 different communities around the world at the same time, and no central place can manage all of those difficulties, and so local communities need to be ready, and part of the president's plan is to assure that they are,