From an ad in my community newspaper:
"Assisted living at it’s best"
I doubt it.
It's (It is) best if you learn how to use "its."
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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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- Poll Results 51
- Criminal Sentence 271: Looking for the Correct Sub...
- Criminal Sentence 270: A Couple
- Criminal Sentence 269: Your Body Type
- Criminal Sentence 268: Me, Me, Me
- Poll Results 50
- Criminal Sentence 267: Migrating Jewelry
- Writer Mag Column 6: Weak subjects
- Criminal Sentence 266: Royally Bad Sentence
- Criminal Sentence 265: Role-ing My Eyes
- Criminal Sentence 264: Speling Problem
- Poll Results 49
- Criminal Sentence 263: High and Low
- Grammar Girl Episode: Distracting Predicate Nouns
- Reader Question: Prepositional Phrases
- Criminal Sentence 262: Naughty Medicare representa...
- Criminal Sentence 261: Apostrophe Un-Happy
- Poll Results 48
- Criminal Sentence 260: Nonsensical FAQ
- Writer Mag Column 5: Wordiness
- Criminal Sentence 259: How Many Parents Do You Have?
- Criminal Sentence 258: Concerns about agreement
- Criminal Sentence 257: A sentence at it's worst
- Poll Results 47
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