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"That releaves a lot of stress."
The dictionary releaves a lot of spelling mistakes.
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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 238: Apples to Oranges
- Poll Results 42
- Grammar Girl Episode: Subject-Complement Agreement
- Criminal Sentence 237: Errors: Just Beat It
- Criminal Sentence 236: To or Too
- Criminal Sentence 235: Falling Leaves
- Criminal Sentence 234: Who and That
- Poll Results 41
- Criminal Sentence 233: Serves You Wrong
- Writer Mag Column 2: How to achieve parallel struc...
- Shrimp Spelling
- Criminal Sentence 232: To Become Grammatical
- Criminal Sentence 231: A Date with Nuttiness
- Poll Results 40
- Criminal Sentence 230: A Bad Start
- "That" or "Who" after a Person
- Criminal Sentence 229: Ambiguous or Ungrammatical?
- Criminal Sentence 228: Sheep in Strange Clothing
- Poll Results 39
- Criminal Sentence 227: "It Was" a Problem
- Grammar Girl Episode: Principal vs. Principle
- Writer Mag Column 1: Take Care of Your “Who” and “...
- Criminal Sentence 226: Lean on Me
- Criminal Sentence 225: The Eyes Have It
- Criminal Sentence 224: Puzzling Headline
- Poll Results 38
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