From a health Web site:
"Hip fractures, or brakes in the bone, are another common cause of hip pain."
Both the idea of this sentence and the spelling are painful!
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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)
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- National Grammar Day (2)
- poll picture (1)
- Poll Results (172)
- Punctuation (163)
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- Rewriting Practice (1)
- Spelling (213)
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- weirdness (11)
- Word Choice (46)
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- Writer Magazine (22)
- Your Own Criminal Sentence (1)
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- 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 423: Testing the Scientists
- New Grammar Girl Episode: Parentheses and Brackets
- Criminal Sentence 422: New Discovery about Birth
- Criminal Sentence 421: I Came, I Sped, I Read
- Criminal Sentence 420: Not a Good Note
- Picture That Goes with This Week's Poll
- Poll Results 96
- Criminal Sentence 419: Putting on the Brakes
- Criminal Sentence 418: Mindful of Spelling
- Criminal Sentence 417: Sleeves Getting Dressed
- Criminal Sentence 416: She's Got Legs
- Poll Results 95
- Criminal Sentence 415: Tick Tricks
- Criminal Sentence 414: Problems Lying Down
- Reader Question: Irregular Verbs
- Criminal Sentence 413: That Temperature Is Awry
- Poll Results 94
- The Writer Print Article: "5 Roadblocks to Good Wr...
- Criminal Sentence 412: Friars
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2 comments:
I would imagine an accelerator pedal in the bone wouldn't be too good either.
I would agree!
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