Yes, it would sound better to say, "Wrap some ice in a damp washcloth and apply it. Remove the washcloth when the pain has stopped." And, of course, it should be "scarring."
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!
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.
2 comments:
How can one 'apply' ice wrapped in washcloth? It's wrapped.
"Scaring" is wrong;it should have been like this: it'll leave no scar.
Yes, it would sound better to say, "Wrap some ice in a damp washcloth and apply it. Remove the washcloth when the pain has stopped."
And, of course, it should be "scarring."
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