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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
- Blatant Self-Promotion (6)
- Books You Might Like (If You've Already Read Mine) (2)
- Capitalization (11)
- Dumb Mistakes (60)
- Encounters at Stores (2)
- Facebook account (1)
- Grammar (220)
- Grammar in the news (11)
- Grammar in Unexpected Places (2)
- Grammar-Related Articles (1)
- Guest post (2)
- Guest-written Episodes for Grammar Girl (73)
- National Grammar Day (2)
- poll picture (1)
- Poll Results (172)
- Punctuation (163)
- Questions from You (21)
- Questions to You (1)
- Rewriting Practice (1)
- Spelling (213)
- Style (65)
- Tips (2)
- Truly Criminal (2)
- weirdness (11)
- Word Choice (46)
- Wordiness (12)
- Writer Magazine (22)
- Your Own Criminal Sentence (1)
About Me
- The Sentence Sleuth
- 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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January
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- Talking about Disabilities: Grammar Girl Episode
- Criminal Sentence 161: School Gets it Doubly Wrong
- Criminal Sentence 160: Groucho on Grammar
- Criminal Sentence 159: Verb, Verb Verb; Parallel, ...
- Criminal Sentence 158: The Meaning of Subject-Verb...
- Poll Results 20
- Criminal Sentence 157: Hiking and Being Parallel a...
- Criminal Sentence 156: How to Catch Anglers
- Criminal Sentence 155: Am I a "They"?
- Poll Results 19
- Criminal Sentence 154: Apostrophe or Comma?
- Criminal Sentence 153: Dare to Compare
- Criminal Sentence 152: Who's a Fool?
- Criminal Sentence 151: Thats Wrong!
- Poll Results 18
- Criminal Sentence 150: Painful Bad Grammar
- Criminal Sentence 149: Naked Ill Will
- Criminal Sentence 148: Past Tense vs. Past Participle
- Criminal Sentence 147: It's Crazy
- Poll Results 17
- Writing tips from a Sentence Sleuth reader
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1 comment:
I wouldn't read it for the content, let alone the missing apostrophe.
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