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Sixty percent of the water COME or COMES in?

  I have not done a blog post on subject/verb agreement in a while. That was a good thing, but a recent article about Jefferson County's "inherited sewer pipe" problems contained a sentence that...

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Without commas, three-year-old follows boss’s orders for his mom.

Here is an interesting sentence from an article about ongoing gambling issues in Alabama: Spina said he will argue that Pouncy is a hardworking mother and wife with a 3-year-old son who reluctantly...

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Luncheon topic headline has agreement problem plus a missing “earring comma.”

A headline in the newsletter of a local ladies club caught my eye last week. Here it is: Meteorologist James Spann, along with Karen Spann  present  "Beauty after the Storm" The subject of this...

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Three errors in one sentence. Too many?

As newspapers evolve in these fast-changing times, it appears to me that they are placing less and less emphasis on careful copyediting. Frequent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage not...

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Seven errors in one article?

In my last post, I promised to continue discussing the frequency of errors in newspaper articles. Last week I tried to read an article in The Birmingham News about a woman who had been recruiting...

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Sales & Performance Tips Newsletter Needs Comma Tips

Most writers tend to "sprinkle" too many commas in their writing. Today's post includes examples from a "sales and performance tips" newsletter that does not use enough commas. The problem involves...

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To use or not to use? (A grammar checker, that is.)

I use Grammarly's free grammar checker because I don't want to misplace a comma and end up eating Gramma (as in "Let's eat Gramma!" instead of "Let's eat, Gramma!"). When I teach business writing...

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Compliment? Or Complement? With wine, it depends.

The Greystone Living review of a recent wine dinner was riddled with Grammar Glitches. Here is the first problem sentence: "The event was held at the Legacy Clubhouse and featured Silver Oak...

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Commas are like breadcrumbs: They mark the trail through a sentence.

When I teach business writing workshops, I like to explain commas as trail markers through the meaning of a sentence.One important trail marker is the comma at the end of an introductory clause or...

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Newspapers Still Need Copy Editors!

Newspaper reporters and columnists can no longer rely on copy editors to polish their usage and grammar. More than one of them has actually thanked Grammar Glitch Central for pointing out an error or...

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