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Have you ever decided to buy a certain product because the packaging assures you that it’s better? I didn’t…
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Sentence Fragments Missing Something.
What does the title of this article say? Reread it. Did your brain fill in the missing word automatically…
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Common Mistakes I See When Proofreading: Vocabulary, Part 3
Let’s talk about contractions. I mentioned them last month in the context of using apostrophes correctly. Some words that…
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Do You Know The Apostrophe Basics?
In elementary school, I distinctly remember doing numerous worksheets on the possessive -s. There would be a list of…
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Self-Help Resources for Proofreading
Before you send off your precious manuscript to your editor, you probably want to make sure that it’s as…
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A Quintessential Quick Guide to Quotation Marks to Quell Your Quotation Qualms
Recently, I edited a PhD dissertation for a literature major which mostly meant that I had to wade through…
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Why Can’t We Just Agree? Subject-Verb Agreement
When I was teaching English Learners in high school, we spent A LOT of time studying subject-verb agreement. I…
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Short and Sweet: Avoiding Run-on Sentences
Each author has their own unique voice. Likely, you’ve spent a lot of time developing the tone and style…
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Who Are We Talking About? Using Pronouns and Antecedents
Keeping Your Sentences Clear Example #1 “They had such a great time at the amusement park. First, my aunt…
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Cat Got Your Tongue? Tricky Idiomatic Expressions That Get Us Bent Out of Shape
Let’s Cut Ourselves Some Slack Adding a little flair to your writing with idioms can be confusing, but hang…
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Common Mistakes I See When Proofreading: Vocabulary, Part 2
To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate… How do you feel about hyphens? Do you use them a lot? Never?…
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Common Mistakes I See When Proofreading: Vocabulary, Part 1
Vocabulary Mistakes I’ve been proofreading a pretty wide variety of material lately—master’s dissertations, personal letters to family, freshman film…
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Proofed and Polished: Tips on self-proofing for a flawless product
A Scenario… Finally! You sit back in your chair and breathe a sigh of relief. The project is done,…
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