Author: Joshua Essoe

Sponsor: Visit GoDaddy.com to get your $2.95 .COM domain. Some limitations apply, see website for details. I want to talk about a time warp in writing that I see fairly often: participial phrases that seem to suggest impossible, simultaneous action. Good grief, what does that mean? It means it’s a good opportunity to talk about grammar! It also means I see sentences where characters are performing multiple actions, but one of those actions must obviously take place before the other can happen, and in the sentence, they don’t. Example: Taking off his jacket, he threw his keys on the…