From a Web site on which I signed up for tennis lessons:
"Your registration will be active as soon as payment as been confirmed."
Lots of "as"es in this sentence. One too many, in fact.
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DOWN WITH CRIMINAL SENTENCES!!
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"The Writer" Magazine Column
In 2009 and 2010, The Writer published 20 online columns and one print article of mine. These essays covered everything from semicolons to wordiness. The full text of all 21 are here on my blog!
Criminal Sentence Rap Sheet
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- Books You Might Like (If You've Already Read Mine) (2)
- Capitalization (11)
- Dumb Mistakes (60)
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- Poll Results (172)
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- Rewriting Practice (1)
- Spelling (213)
- Style (65)
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- Truly Criminal (2)
- weirdness (11)
- Word Choice (46)
- Wordiness (12)
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- I'm a copy editor and writer. I wrote The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the Mysteries of Weak Writing, published in 2006 and now available in paperback. In 2007-2008, I wrote "The Sentence Sleuth" column for Writer's Digest magazine.
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- Criminal Sentence 146: Foreword March!
- Criminal Sentence 145: "As" on the Brain
- Poll Results 16
- Criminal Sentence 144: Into the Breach
- Criminal Sentence 143: The KGB Will Get You for This
- Criminal Sentence 142: Having Bad Dreams
- Criminal Sentence 141: A Mutinous Sentence
- Poll Results 15
- Criminal Sentence 140: The Doctor Is an Athlete!
- Criminal Sentence 139: Dental Drama
- Criminal Sentence 138: Baby Jesus Is Nowhere in Sight
- Criminal Sentence 137: One or More Clerks?
- Poll Results 14
- Criminal Sentence 136: Who Has Many Male Visitors?
- Criminal Sentence 135: Time to "Bailout" the News
- Criminal Sentence 134: Confusing Commas with Dates
- Criminal Sentence 133: Sentence Disconnect
- Poll Results 13
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3 comments:
Dropped aitches - what would Professor Higgins say?
Oi! Wot's wrong wit that sentence, luv?
Cor blimey, guvner! There's an "h" missing!
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