Common mistake by run-of-the-mill writers.

It’s always surprising when someone brags and brags about his or her accomplishments as a writer (‘international,” “best-selling,” “award-winning,” etc.) and includes a basic punctuation mistake, like this one, which was made...

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Problematic Pronouns!

Wow, you want to confuse a reader right out of the gate? Well, here’s an easy, no-brainer way to do it: Use the same pronoun to refer to different things in a sentence. This is a great, nay, inspirational example from an “internationally famous,...

March 2017 Quiz with ANSWERS!

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...

I'm intolerant…I admit it!

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...

A few words about hyphens.

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,...