by Liz Coursen | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am constantly and consistently amazed when I go to a self-proclaimed editor’s website and find a morass of mistakes in his or her content. I don’t get it. How can someone who plainly doesn’t understand the rules of good grammar and correct...
by Liz Coursen | Apr 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Well, as it happens, I do have a punctuation suggestion! Well, a few, actually. Let’s look at this sentence: A raid on a lawyer’s office doesn’t happen every day; it means that multiple government officials, and a federal judge, had reason to believe they’d find...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s easy for BNI! Besides needing a comma, there are two mistakes made over and over and over and over again. The offending (and offensive) sentence: The process to become an Ambassador starts with exemplary leadership in their chapter, they are nominated by...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
This morning I was tweaking an introduction, and I came across a place that made me pause: is the possessive of CBS written CBS’ or CBS’s? I liked the latter, simply because you do pronounce that last “s”: C-B-S-ess. I went back and forth and...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was looking at a particular lot on an auction house’s site, and came across these two sentences about the condition of the item: Thistle Brooch: Highest amethyst flower with an inclusion that appears as a chip, but it is internal. Not apparent significant...
by Liz Coursen | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s pretty easy to run around and find major, jaw-dropping mistakes in the online content of people who are running around representing themselves as editors or publishers. In fact, it’s not “pretty” easy, it’s damn easy. But,...
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