From a sales letter I edited recently:
"Complete enrollment instructions are provided on the backside."
"Back side" (two words) means the reverse side. "Backside" (one word) means rear end.
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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
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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 27: Misplaced While Traveling
- Criminal Sentence 26: Don't Run On
- Criminal Sentence 25: Hyphens II
- Criminal Sentence 24: Hi (Or Bye), Hyphen
- Criminal Sentence 23: Crazy Comparison
- Criminal Sentence 22: Shorten When You Have the Ab...
- Criminal Sentence 21: Not Her's
- Criminal Sentence 20: Nasty Nominalization
- Criminal Sentence 19: Including What?
- Criminal Sentence 18: Compound Confusion
- Criminal Sentence 17: Soundalikes
- Criminal Sentence 16: Another Misplaced Modifier
- Criminal Sentence 15: The Art of No Typos
- Criminal Sentence 14: Overusing quotation marks
- Criminal Sentence 13: Vague Subjects
- Criminal Sentence 12: The Sport of Finding Missing...
- Criminal Sentence 11: Watch Your Backside
- Criminal Sentence 10: Pour vs. Pore
- Criminal Sentence 9: Crazy Caps
- Criminal Sentence 8: Recipe for a Misplaced Modifier
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