Punctuation and Grammar Quiz, Week 4.
Let’s test your editing chops! What’s wrong with the sentences below? Answers follow next week.
1. A great book can really create a strong platform, but one that is not crafted correctly can actually hurt a speakers creditability worse than if they had not written it all.
2. From CEO of Yahoo Marissa Myer’s bio:
She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a M.S. in Computer Science.
3. You can’t however re-convert a JPG/PNG file that has been converted from a PSD back to a PSD file – it loses it’s layers.
4. From Grammarly.com:
There’s also the fact that a misspelled word makes the author look uneducated and unknowledgeable, and so the reader dismisses the work as unworthy of their attention.
Quotation marks come in singles (‘___’) or doubles (“___”), and they always come in sets of two.
In fiction, quotation marks are quite common as they go around all dialogue; in non-fiction they should be judiciously used around quotes to prove a point or support a thesis.
You can use a dash whenever you need to wake your reader up and let them know that the focus is changing.
5. Eric accepted a position as an Assistant State Attorney in Sarasota and Manatee Counties after being admitted to the Florida bar in 2005.
6. Professional Editors can also help improve the clarity and organization of ideas, and can insure consistency of voice and style.
7. Content strategist so-and-so has suggested that a meaningful analysis of a user’s context requires not only an understanding of user goals, but also of their behaviors: What are they doing? How are they feeling? What are they capable of?
8. A highly-regarded researcher, she published numerous articles in scholarly journals.
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