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  • 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”
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