In February, the Supreme Court heard a case that hinged on the grammar of a single phrase in a federal law. The law calls for a 10-year minimum sentence for anyone possessing child pornography if he ...

As multiword modifiers, participial phrases enjoy flexibility in positioning themselves in a sentence. However, they do their job best when placed as near as possible to the noun or pronoun they are ...

TO establish context or give texture to a main clause, we typically use a phrase to modify it. This modifying phrase commonly takes one of these five forms — a prepositional phrase, appositive phrase, ...