Archives for May, 2017
- When in Doubt, Leave Scare Quotes Out
- 3 More Examples of Misplaced Modifiers
- 3 Problematic Parallel Lists
- “Class” and Its Derivatives
- Words That Include “Dur”
- Punctuation Quiz #18: Ellipsis
- What “Mean” Means
- Start a Freelance Writing Career in 2017
- Use of the Apostrophe in Possessive Constructions
- Words Ending in “-ly” Aren’t Always Adverbs
- Avert vs. Avoid
- 5 Derogatory Adjectives Derived from Words for Medical Conditions
- Style Quiz #11: Confusion of a Thing and Its Name
- 3 Sentences with Hyphenation Problems
- 5 Cases of Awkward Appositives
- 3 More Cases of Superfluous Semicolons
- The Story of “Sake”
- The Impressive Range of “Impress”
- Style Quiz #10: Tense Shifts
- 3 Cases of Mixed Metaphors
- 50 Foreign Terms That Aren’t Foreign
- 3 Examples of Dashing to the Rescue
- “Optics” Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Slang Words Ending in “O”
- Style Quiz #9: Simplifying Sentences
- 3 Errors Involving Prepositions
- Expletives and Agents
- Restrictive and Unrestrictive Use of “Such As”