Being Wrong, I Corrected Them

A dangling modifier is a modifier in a sentence that modifies the wrong thing. For example, in the sentence "Walking to school, the trees were beautiful," the "walking to school incorrectly modifies the trees, making it sound like a couple attractive teenage trees were walking to school, when the writer meant to say that as HE was walking to school, he saw a couple trees, which were beautiful.

"The trees, which I saw as I was walking to school, were beautiful."
"As I walked to the school, I saw trees, which were beautiful."
"Walking to school, I saw beautiful trees."

Or something.

Funnily enough, a lot of these dangling modifiers and other grammatical errors presented in this article are tested in the writing section of the SAT. After having some SAT prep and SAT practice, not only have I found out that SAT prep courses are money-munching, but also that I have been making a lot of these mistakes.

Something interesting is that a lot of these mistakes are commonly spoken and acceptable in a verbal context, but not so much in a written form. I literally (yes, literally, not the fake literally you see littered throughout the internet) hear the phrases "the reason why" or "the reason is... because" everyday, and generally they aren't frowned upon (though I tend to cringe a little every time the phrases are uttered... oh, SAT prep, what hast thou doneth to me?). As the aforementioned article makes it clear, it's a grammatical error, but hey, it's not like you can change the way everyone speaks.

Physicists... You should know better.

Conclusion?
There are so many grammatical mistakes out there.
Written English isn't the same as spoken English.
SAT prep makes you a grammar Nazi.