Two cringe-worthy signs I saw recently:
A store name:
What Ever
A sign that was advertising produce:
Tomato's
Whatever!
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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 411: The Reason I'm Wordy
- Criminal Sentence 410: Don't Sign Me Up
- Poll Results 93
- Criminal Sentence 409: Bears in the Hospital!
- Criminal Sentence 408: As a Parent, We Are Ungramm...
- Criminal Sentence 407: Hardworking Apostrophes
- Criminal Sentence 406: Can Haircuts Have Names?
- Poll Results 92
- Guest-Written Grammar Girl Episode: Transitions
- Criminal Sentence 405: Punctuation Outsider
- Poll Not Working
- Criminal Sentence 404: Check for Ambiguity at Once!
- Criminal Sentence 403: Completely Messed Up
- Criminal Sentence 402: Terrible Violence;Terrible ...
- Poll Results 91
- Criminal Sentence 401: Time for Lunch
- Criminal Sentence 400: Let's Hear It for Periods (.)
- Reader Question
- Criminal Sentence 399: That's a Lie
- Poll Results 90
- Criminal Sentence 398: Not Loath to Loathe
- Criminal Sentence 397: Dead Apostrophe
- This week's poll: Doofus alert
- Poll Results 89
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