From Rick: For the next three or four posts, I’m going to dive into some interesting aspects of word usage confusion (with a little grammar thrown in). Writers need to put their best foot forward in terms of understanding and
Read moreFrom Rick: In Part 1 of this two-part series I discussed subject, object, and possessive (genitive) pronouns. You might want to check that out if you missed it. In that post I mentioned seeing sentences like the following: “I think
Read moreFrom Rick: Last time I talked about nouns and the issues we might run into with them when it comes to figuring out verb agreements. Most of us won’t have a problem with the following sentence: The legal team at
Read moreFrom Rick: In a recent post, I talked about some of the style changes in the latest edition (17th) of the Chicago Manual of Style: GRAMMAR AND STYLE TIPS-PART 1 In this post I’m going to talk about some problems
Read moreFrom Rick: Followers of my blog know that I really try to mix things up, presenting articles on a wide variety of topics from how-to articles and posts on writing to publishing advice, interviews, and other things of interest to
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