by Liz Coursen | Aug 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Geeky-editing-post-about-commas alert! I just came across these two sentences on the B&N website, ironically on one of its “here’s-how-you-put-your-books-in-our-stores pages.” The annual, “The Writer’s Market”, is also stocked...
by Liz Coursen | Jul 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
What a terrific example of the suspended hyphen rule, compliments of The New York Times: The older Tom Cruise gets, the more fun it is to watch him risk death in elaborate age- and gravity-defying ways.
by Liz Coursen | Jul 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Yours in good grammar: The Space Makes the Case! A “breakthrough” is defined as “a significant or sudden advance, development, or achievement that removes a barrier to progress; a person’s first success.” “Breakthrough” is one of a group of words, like cleanup, login,...
by Liz Coursen | Jul 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
These sentences are part of the 52-sentence group I pulled from a local “WordPress expert’s” site. I’m all for WordPress, and I understand that it’s “open source, ” etc., etc., etc., and that lots and lots of very cool people...
by Liz Coursen | Jul 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Oh, I’m so happy to have my blog back. What an ordeal! Yippee! Okay, here we have a wonderful, stupendous quiz, featuring material from the same website and, get this, this is a WordPress developer’s website! God only knows what his and her clients’...
by Liz Coursen | May 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I admit to being grumpy about not being chosen to present at the National Speakers Association’s Influence 2018. However, I would take some comfort if I felt that the three women in the 3-woman panel chosen to present about “Authorship” were as good...
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