The name of a business I saw on a truck driving by:
"Desert Affects Landscaping"
Does desert affect landscaping? Maybe. Is this landscaping company trying to give clients a desert effect? Maybe.
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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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- Criminal Sentence 177: Pronouns
- Criminal Sentence 176: Not a Knockout
- Criminal Sentence 175: How Many Houses Does This C...
- The President and Pronouns
- Criminal Sentence 174: Your Finished
- Poll Results 24
- Criminal Sentence 173: Misplaced Prepositional Phrase
- Album Cover Typo!
- Criminal Sentence 172: National Magazine Is Under ...
- Criminal Sentence 171: Less "Then" Perfect
- Criminal Sentence 170: How Many Landladies?
- Poll Results 23
- News Story: A Student Finds a Typo on a Test
- Grammar Girl Episode: Comma with "Too"
- Criminal Sentence 169: No Apostrophes in Verbs!!
- Criminal Sentence 168: Many Words That Say Little
- Criminal Sentence 167: Ambiguity 2
- Criminal Sentence 166: Ambiguity
- Poll Results 22
- Criminal Sentence 165: Affects or Effects?
- Criminal Sentence 164: Calling All Spirits
- Criminal Sentence 163: Inventing Words
- Criminal Sentence 162: That's Irritating
- Poll Results 21
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