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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 256: The Worst Sentence of the Year
- Criminal Sentence 255: There, their, they're
- Criminal Sentence 254: Yucky Shake
- Criminal Sentence 253: With a passion for grammar
- Poll Results 46
- Criminal Sentence 252: Headline Capitalization
- Criminal Sentence 251: Coincidentally...
- Criminal Sentence 250: Ambiguous Besides
- Criminal Sentence 249: Looking for Kanga
- Poll Results 45
- Criminal Sentence 248: Quite an Effect
- Guest-Written Grammar Girl Episode: Using "Which" ...
- Writer Mag Column 4: Imaginative Verbs
- Criminal Sentence 247: Admitting You Have Typos
- Criminal Sentence 246: Buried in Bad Grammar
- Criminal Sentence 245: Three for One
- Poll Results 44
- Criminal Sentence 244: I Have an Aversion to That!
- Guest-Written Grammar Girl Episode: Rhetorical/Tag...
- Criminal Sentence 243: Who's the First Lady?
- Criminal Sentence 242: Funny Mustache
- Criminal Sentence 241: Groaning Outloud
- Poll Results 43
- Writer Mag Column 3: Dangling modifiers
- Criminal Sentence 240: Writing "Differently"
- Criminal Sentence 239: A Plethora of Errors
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