A great post about typos:
http://www.therejectionist.com/2010/01/one-of-these-words-is-not-like-other.html
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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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- New Grammar Girl Episode: Is "I'm Loving It" Correct?
- Criminal Sentence 333: A Musical Sentence
- Criminal Sentence 332: Ambiguous Headline
- Criminal Sentence 331: I Don't Agree with You on That
- Poll Results 71
- Criminal Sentence 330: Time to Check for Redundancies
- Criminal Sentence 329: Holmes Detects a Spelling E...
- Writer Mag Column 16: Relative Pronouns
- My Guest Post on guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog
- Criminal Sentence 328: Getting the Name Right
- Criminal Sentence 327: Birds Sneeze ... and
- Poll Results 70
- What do you want to know about?
- Criminal Sentence 326: Hyphen Issues
- New Grammar Girl Episode: Using the Word "Get"
- Criminal Sentence 325: "Woman" Is the New "Female"
- Criminal Sentence 324: Donate a good sentence today
- Criminal Sentence 323: Pronouns
- Poll Results 69
- Bee Wear of Tie Pose
- Criminal Sentence 322: Proper nouns
- Writer Mag Column 15: Comparisons
- Criminal Sentence 321: Creative Fiction
- Criminal Sentence 320: Comma fix
- Criminal Sentence 319: Symbols and words
- Poll Results 68
- Grammar Girl episode: How to Use "Nor"
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