by Liz Coursen | Apr 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Relax and enjoy Florida at it’s finest in this one-of-a kind amazing home. Ick. It’s its, not it’s; the last hyphen is missing in “one-of-a-kind”; and “amazing” and “one-of-a-kind” are coordinate nouns and so need a comma between them. 2. Its a combination of...
by Liz Coursen | Apr 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’m on a couple of “best-selling author” mailing lists, and, I’m telling you what…they send me incorrect copy at their peril. I especially don’t like an “international best-selling author” who sends me copy that’s...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Most of the time, you hyphenate a compound adjective when it precedes the noun it modifies, like so: I need a full-time assistant. You do not hyphenate a compound adjective when it follows the noun it modifies, like this: I need an assistant full time. So, my friends,...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hi all! This is mostly real estate-related material today. What’s wrong with these sentences? (Could be more than one thing!) Relax and enjoy Florida at it’s finest in this one-of-a kind amazing home. Its a combination of hardware and software. Clark...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Is leadership a top-down or bottom-up process? I’ve thought a lot about this question since the ’80s, when I was dating a musician whose music was amazing. I’d watch him playing and think: Is he reaching up to God, or is God reaching down to him?...
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