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Monday, January 30th, 2017

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Insurmountable Peeves

Monday, January 16th, 2017

Tags: an historic, COPY EDITING, GRAMMAR, grammar peeves, pronunciation of often, split infinitive
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    • #AMWRITING
    • #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou
    • A AAA VS. AN AAA
    • A HISTORIC VS AN HISTORIC
    • A WHILE VS. AWHILE
    • ABBREVIATIONS
    • Acronym
    • ACRONYM VS ABBREVIATION
    • Acronym vs Initialism
    • ACTION VERBS
    • ACTIVE VERBS
    • ACTIVE VOICE
    • ACTUALLY
    • ADJECTIVES
    • ADRENALINE VS ADRENALIN
    • ADVERBIAL
    • ADVERBS
    • ADVERBS VS. ADJECTIVES
    • ADVERBS VS. ADVERBIALS
    • ADVERSE AND AVERSE
    • ADVERSE VS AVERSE
    • ADVISOR vs. ADVISER
    • AESTHETIC AND ESTHETIC
    • AFFECT AND EFFECT
    • AFFECT VS EFFECT
    • AGGRAVATE AND IRRITATE
    • AGGRAVATE VS IRRITATE
    • AGREEMENT
    • ALONG WITH
    • ALRIGHT ALL RIGHT
    • AMN'T
    • AMONG
    • AMPERSAND
    • AMPERSANDS
    • an historic
    • AND
    • AND I VS AND ME
    • ANTONYMS
    • anxious vs eager
    • ANYMORE ANY MORE
    • ANYMORE VS ANY MORE
    • AP STYLE
    • apostrophe
    • apostrophe abuse
    • APOSTROPHE IN LETTER GRADES
    • Apostrophe in Mothers Day
    • Apostrophe in Presidents Day
    • APOSTROPHE IN SEASON'S GREETINGS
    • Apostrophe in Veterans Day
    • APOSTROPHE PROTECTION SOCIETY
    • APOSTROPHE VS SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
    • APOSTROPHES
    • apostrophes for form plurals
    • APOSTROPHES IN PLURALS
    • APPEARANCE SAKE
    • APPOSITIVE
    • AREN'T I
    • AS WELL AS
    • ASPECT
    • ATONEMENT
    • ATTRIBUTIVE NOUN
    • ATTRIBUTIVE NOUNS
    • AUXILIARY VERB
    • AUXILIARY VERBS
    • AVOID ADVERBS
    • AWHILE VS. A WHILE
    • BAD ADVICE
    • BAITED BREATH
    • BARBECUE BARBEQUE
    • BEACH GOER OR BEACHGOER
    • beg the question
    • beginning a sentence with and
    • beginning a sentence with but
    • BEGINNING SENTENCE WITH AND
    • BEGINNING SENTENCE WITH CONJUNCTION
    • BEGINNING SENTENCE WITH PRONOUN
    • ben zimmer
    • BENJAMIN DREYER
    • BETWEEN
    • BETWEEN SENTENCES
    • BETWEEN YOU AND I
    • BETWEEN YOU AND ME
    • BIG WORDS
    • bimonthly
    • biweekly
    • BOOK TITLES
    • BOOK TITLES IN ITALICS
    • BOOK TITLES IN QUOTATION MARKS
    • BORED BY OR BORED OF OR BORED WITH
    • BOTH
    • BRING AND TAKE
    • Bristol Punctuation Vigilante
    • BRYAN GARNER
    • BULLETED LISTS
    • BURIED VERB
    • CACHE
    • CACHET
    • CACTUSES OR CACTI
    • CAN
    • CAN VS MAY
    • CANNABUSINESS
    • CAPITAL LETTER AFTER A COLON
    • capitalization
    • CAPITALIZE CITY NAMES
    • CAPITALIZE DISHES
    • CAPITALIZE MENU ITEMS
    • CHAISE LONGUE
    • CHANUKAH
    • CHICAGO AP STYLE DIFFERENCES
    • CHOMPING AT THE BIT
    • CHOOSING SPECIFIC NOUNS AND VERBS
    • CITE and SIGHT
    • CLARITY
    • CLATFART
    • CLICHES
    • CLITIC
    • COLLECTIVE NOUNS
    • COLON
    • COLON VS. SEMICOLON
    • Colons
    • comma
    • COMMA AFTER INC
    • COMMA AFTER STATE
    • COMMA AFTER YEAR
    • COMMA BEFORE A TITLE
    • COMMA BEFORE TOO
    • COMMA IN IS IS
    • COMMA SPLICE
    • COMMAS
    • commas around inc.
    • COMMAS BETWEEN ADJECTIVES
    • commas between coordinate adjectives
    • COMMAS INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS
    • COMMAS TO SET OFF INFORMATION
    • COMMON SPELLING ERRORS
    • COMMONLY CONFUSED EXPRESSIONS
    • COMMONLY CONFUSED VERBS
    • COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS
    • COMPARATIVE
    • COMPARATIVES
    • comparatives and superlatives
    • COMPARE TO VS COMPARE WITH
    • COMPARED TO COMPARED WITH
    • COMPLIMENT AND COMPLEMENT
    • COMPLIMENT VS. COMPLEMENT
    • COMPOSE AND COMPRISE
    • compound adjectives
    • COMPOUND MODIFIER
    • compound modifiers
    • COMPOUND NOUN
    • conjunctions
    • CONJUNCTIVE LIKE
    • CONTINUAL AND CONTINUOUS
    • COORDINATE ADJECTIVES
    • COORDINATION
    • COPULAR VERBS
    • copy editin
    • COPY EDITING
    • CORONAVIRUS SLANG
    • COULD CARE LESS VS COULDN'T CARE LESS
    • COULD OF and COULD HAVE
    • COUPLE IS OR COUPLE ARE
    • COUPLE IS VS. COUPLE ARE
    • COURTESY TITLES
    • COVIDIOT
    • CRINGE AS AN ADJECTIVE
    • DANGLER
    • danglers
    • DANGLING MODIFIER
    • DANGLING PARTICIPLE
    • dash
    • DASH VS HYPHEN
    • DASH VS SEMICOLON
    • DASH VS. COLON
    • DASHES
    • decimate
    • decimate usage
    • DECLARATIVE
    • DECLARATIVE QUESTION
    • DEFINITE ARTICLE
    • DICTIONARIES
    • DIFFERENT FROM VS DIFFERENT THAN
    • DIFFERENT SPELLINGS FOR SAME WORD
    • DIRECT OBJECTS
    • DISINTERESTED UNINTERESTED
    • DISJUNCTS CONJUNCTS ADJUNCTS
    • DISSATISFIED VS. UNSATISFIED
    • DO'S AND DON'TS
    • done vs finished
    • DOS AND DONTS
    • DOUBLE NEGATIVE
    • DOUBLE POSSESSIVE
    • DOUBLE SPACING
    • DREAMED VS DREAMT
    • DUMMY OPERATOR
    • EASILY CONFUSED WORDS
    • ECONOMY OF WORDS
    • EDITING
    • EDITING NOTES
    • EDITING YOUR OWN WRITING
    • EFFECTIVE WRITING
    • EFFETE
    • EGGCORN
    • ellipses
    • ELLIPSIS
    • EM DASH VS EN DASH
    • EM DASHES
    • EMAIL E-MAIL
    • EMAIL GREETINGS
    • EMIGRATE AND IMMIGRATE
    • EN DASH
    • EN DASH VS EM DASH
    • ENGLISH
    • enormity
    • ENSURE INSURE
    • ETYMOLOGY
    • EVACUATE
    • EVERY DAY VS. EVERYDAY
    • EXCLAMATION POINT
    • EXCLAMATION POINTS
    • EXISTENTIAL THERE
    • FALSE RANGES
    • FARTHER
    • father's day
    • faulty parallel
    • FAULTY SENTENCE STRUCTURE
    • FAZE and PHASE
    • FIRSTLY
    • FIVE BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURES
    • FLAT ADVERBS
    • FLESH OUT AND FLUSH OUT
    • FLUSH OUT VS. FLESH OUT
    • FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE
    • FOR GOODNESS SAKE
    • FORGO AND FORGO
    • FORGO FOREGO
    • FORGONE FOREGONE
    • FORM TYPES OF VERBS
    • FORWENT FOREWENT
    • FRAUGHT VS FRAUGHT WITH
    • FRIEND OF
    • FURTHER
    • Fused Participle
    • GAUNTLET GANTLET
    • GENERIC PRONOUN ONE
    • GET
    • GOER
    • GOOD AND WELL
    • GOOD SENTENCES
    • GOOD VS WELL
    • GOODNESS SAKE
    • GOT VS. HAVE
    • GOT VS. HAVE GOT
    • GRADUATE COLLEGE OR GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE
    • GRAMM
    • GRAMMAR
    • GRAMMAR CHECKER
    • GRAMMAR MYTH
    • grammar peeves
    • grammar phobia
    • GRAMMAR TERMS
    • GRAMMATICAL MOOD
    • GRAY VS GREY
    • GREAT AND WELL
    • GREATLY
    • GREETING
    • GROGNARD
    • HANGED VS HUNG
    • HANUKKAH
    • HARSH WRITING ADVICE
    • HAVE GOT
    • HAVE GOT VS HAVE
    • HE OR HIM
    • HEADQUARTER AS A VERB
    • HEADQUARTERED
    • HEALTH CARE HYPHENATED
    • HEALTHCARE VS HEALTH CARE
    • HEALTHFUL
    • HEALTHY
    • HELTER SKELTER
    • HERE'S BEFORE A PLURAL
    • HERE'S VS HERE ARE
    • HISTORIC VS HISTORICAL
    • HOI POLLOI
    • HOME IN VS HONE IN
    • HOMO SAPIEN VS. HOMO SAPIENS
    • HOMONYMS
    • HOMOPHONES AND HOMOGRAPHS
    • HOPEFULLY
    • HOW TO PRONOUNCE KYIV
    • HOW TO PUNCTUATE CHRISTMAS CARDS
    • HOW TO WRITE
    • HOW TO WRITE BOOK TITLES
    • how to write holidays
    • HOW TO WRITE MOVIE TITLES
    • HYPHEN
    • HYPHEN WITH MAKER
    • HYPHENATING NOUNS
    • HYPHENATING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
    • HYPHENATING SUFFIXES
    • HYPHENATING VERBS
    • hyphenation
    • hyphens
    • I FEEL BAD VS I FEEL BADLY
    • I FEEL BADLY
    • I vs Me
    • I-N-G VERBS
    • IAN MCEWAN
    • IDIOMS
    • if and whether
    • IF VS WHETHER
    • immigrate emigrate migrate
    • IMPERATIVE
    • imperatives
    • IMPORTANTLY
    • IN REGARDS TO
    • INCOMPLETE SENTENCES
    • INDEFINITE ARTICLES
    • INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
    • INDEXES INDICES
    • INDIRECT OBJECT
    • INDIRECT OBJECT PRONOUN
    • insure vs ensure
    • INTENSIFIER
    • INTERROGATIVE
    • INTO VS IN TO
    • INTRANSITIVE VERBS
    • INTRODUCTORY PHRASE
    • INTRUSIVE OF
    • IRREGARDLESS
    • IRREGARDLESS AND REGARDLESS
    • IRREGULAR NOUNS
    • IS IS
    • IS TEAM PLURAL OR SINGULAR
    • IT IS I WHO AM VS IT IS I WHO ARE
    • IT'S VS ITS
    • ITALICS
    • ITALICS VS. QUOTATION MARKS
    • ITS AND IT'S
    • ITS VS IT'S
    • JACOB REES-MOGG
    • JARGON
    • JOB TITLES
    • john dowd
    • John Le Carre
    • JOHN MCINTYRE
    • JONATHON OWEN
    • Journalism Standards
    • JUDGEMENT VS JUDGMENT
    • KORY STAMPER
    • LANGUAGE
    • LAY AND LIE
    • LAY IN STATE
    • LEAD VS. LED
    • LESS THAN
    • less vs fewer
    • LET'S AND LETS
    • LET'S EAT GRANDMA
    • LET'S VS. LETS
    • LEXICOGRAPHY
    • LIE IN STATE
    • lighted vs lit
    • LIGHTED VS. LIT
    • LIKE
    • LIKE AND AS
    • LIKE AND SUCH AS
    • LINKING VERBS
    • LITERALLY
    • LOAN VS LEND
    • LOG IN VS LOGIN
    • LONG SENTENCES
    • LOWERCASE AFTER A COLON
    • LY ADVERBS
    • MAJORITY
    • MAKING
    • MANAFORT
    • MANIKIN MANNEQUIN
    • MANNER ADVERBS
    • MARY NORRIS
    • MAY VS. MIGHT
    • ME VS I
    • MERRIAM
    • METACONCEPTS
    • MIKE POMPEO
    • MISLEADING CONNECTIVES
    • MODAL AUXILIARIES
    • MODAL AUXILIARY
    • MODALITY
    • modifying phrases
    • MOOD
    • MORE CLEAR VS CLEARER
    • MORE THAN
    • MOST COMMON APOSTROPHE ERRORS
    • MOST COMMON GRAMMAR ERRORS
    • Most common grammar mistakes
    • mother's day
    • MOVIE TITLES
    • MUST
    • MYRIAD VS A MYRIAD OF
    • MYRIAD VS. MYRIAD OF
    • MYSELF
    • MYSELF VS. ME
    • NAMES
    • NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY
    • NEEDLESS WORDS
    • NEITHER
    • NEOLOGISMS
    • NEVER MIND / NEVERMIND
    • NEW WORDS
    • NEW YEAR'S
    • no problem
    • NOMINALIZATION
    • NOMINALIZATIONS
    • NONBINARY THEY
    • NONCE WORD
    • NONE IS VS NONE ARE
    • NONPLUSSED
    • NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSES
    • NOUNS AS ADJECTIVES
    • NOUNS ENDING IN S
    • object complement
    • OBJECT PRONOUN
    • OBJECT PRONOUNS
    • OBJECT VS SUBJECT PRONOUNS
    • OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS
    • obscenity
    • OCTOPUSES OR OCTOPI
    • OED
    • OK OKAY
    • OLDER OF TWO VS OLDEST OF TWO
    • OLIVER TWIST
    • OMIT NEEDLESS WORDS
    • ONE
    • ONE SPACE
    • ONE SPACE AFTER A PERIOD
    • ONE SPACE OR TWO BETWEEN SENTENCES
    • ONLY
    • ONTO VS ON TO
    • OR
    • OVER
    • OVER AND UNDER
    • oxford comma
    • OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
    • PALETTE PALATE PALLET
    • PALM OFF VS PAWN OFF
    • PALM OFF VS. PAWN OFF
    • PARALLEL STRUCTURE
    • PARENTHESES
    • PARTICIPIAL PHRASES
    • PARTS OF SPEECH
    • PASSIVE VOICE
    • past participles
    • past tense
    • PAST TENSE OF LAY
    • PAST TENSE OF LIGHT
    • PAST TENSE OF SLAY
    • period before a quotation mark
    • PERIODS IN INITIALS
    • PERIODS IN PHD
    • PERIODS INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS
    • PERSONAL PRONOUNS
    • PERUSE
    • PETER SOKOLOWSKI
    • PHRASAL VERBS
    • PIQUE
    • PIRATE TALK
    • placement of only
    • plead pled
    • PLURAL
    • PLURAL OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL
    • PLURAL POSSESSIVE
    • PLURAL POSSESSIVES
    • PLURAL POSSESSIVES OF PROPER NOUNS
    • PLURAL VERB
    • PLURAL VERB WITH AS WELL AS
    • PLURAL VERBS
    • PLURALS
    • PLURALS OF LATIN WORDS
    • PLURALS OF LETTERS
    • PLURALS OF MOVIE TITLES
    • POSSESSIVE
    • Possessive with Gerund
    • possessives
    • POSSESSIVES OF MOVIE TITLES
    • POSSESSIVES OF PROPER NAMES
    • PREDICATE NOMINATIVE
    • prefixes
    • PREPOSI
    • PREPOSITIONS
    • PRESCRIPTIVISM
    • PREVENTATIVE
    • PREVENTIVE
    • PRINCIPAL AND PRINCIPLE
    • PRINCIPLE and PRINCIPAL
    • profanity
    • PRONONCIATION
    • PRONOUN ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT
    • PRONOUNS
    • PRONOUNS INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
    • pronunciation of often
    • proofreading
    • PUNCTUATION
    • PUT A COMMA BEFORE TOO
    • QUASI COORDINATOR
    • QUASI POSSESSIVES
    • QUESTION MARK
    • quotation marks
    • QUOTATIONS
    • raise the question
    • RANG RUNG
    • RANGES
    • READER FRIENDLY LANGUAGE
    • REDUPLICATIVE COPULA
    • REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
    • REFLEXIVES
    • REIGN VS REIN
    • REIN vs REIGN
    • RELATIVE PRONOUN ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT
    • RELATIVE PRONOUNS
    • RESTRICTIVE CLAUSES
    • ROB AND BURGLARIZE
    • ROCK N ROLL
    • RUN-ON SENTENCES
    • RUTH BADER GINSBURG
    • SCARE QUOTES
    • SECONDLY
    • SEMICOLON
    • SEMICOLON ABUSE
    • SEMICOLONS
    • semimonthly
    • semiweekly
    • SENTENCE ADVERBS
    • sentence diagramming
    • SENTENCE ENDING PREPOSITION
    • SENTENCE ENDING PREPOSITIONS
    • SENTENCE FRAGMENT
    • SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
    • SENTENCE STRUCTURE
    • SENTENCE STRUCTURES
    • SENTENCE WRITING
    • SENTENCES
    • serial comma
    • SHARED POSSESSIVE
    • SHARED POSSESSIVES
    • SHORT SENTENCES
    • SHOULD
    • SIMPLE COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES
    • SINCE VS BECAUSE
    • SINCE VS. BECAUSE
    • SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
    • SINGULAR AUSPICE
    • SINGULAR VERB
    • SINGULAR VERB WITH EVERY
    • SINGULAR VS PLURAL
    • SITE
    • SKUNKED TERMS
    • SLAVA UKRAINI
    • SLEIGHT VS SLIGHT
    • SLOW VS. SLOWLY
    • SMIZE
    • SNEAK PEAK VS SNEAK PEEK
    • SNEAK VS. SNUCK VS. SNEAKED
    • SO
    • SO CRINGE
    • SOMEONE
    • spaces around ellipses
    • SPEECH TAGS
    • spell check fail
    • SPELL-CHECKER
    • SPELLING
    • SPITTING IMAGE
    • split infinitive
    • SQUINTING MODIFIER
    • STARTING A SENTENCE WITH AND
    • STEPHEN CALK
    • STYLE
    • STYLE GUIDES
    • SUBJECT PRONOUNS
    • SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
    • SUBJECT-COMPLEMENT AGREEMENT
    • SUBJECT-OBJECT AGREEMENT
    • SUBJUNCTIVE
    • SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
    • SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
    • suffixes
    • SUPERLATIVES AND COMPARATIVES
    • SWAM VS. SWUM
    • SYNONYMS
    • TENSE SHIFTS
    • terminal punctuation
    • THAN I VS THAN ME
    • THANKSGIVING DAY
    • THAT AND WHICH
    • THAT VS. WHICH
    • THE JOY OF SYNTAX
    • The Possessive of Jr.
    • THE REASON IS BECAUSE
    • THE REASON WHY
    • THE TEAM IS VS THE TEAM ARE
    • THE WIRE
    • THERE ARE
    • THERE IS
    • THERE'S
    • THERE'S VS. THEIRS
    • THESE ONES
    • THEY'RE AND THEIR
    • THIS IS HER
    • THIS IS SHE
    • THRU THROUGH
    • TILL TIL UNTIL
    • TITLED VS ENTITLED
    • TITLES
    • TITLES IN ITALICS
    • TITLES IN QUOTATION MARKS
    • TO BOLDLY GO
    • TOO BIG A DEAL
    • TOO BIG OF A DEAL
    • TOWARD VS. TOWARDS
    • TRANSITIVE
    • TRANSITIVE VERBS
    • TRUMP SPELLING
    • TRUMP TWEET
    • TRY AND
    • TRY TO
    • TWO SPACE
    • TYPOS
    • UNCLEAR ANTECEDENTS
    • UNDERLIE PAST TENSE
    • UNDERWAY / UNDER WAY
    • UNNECESSARY ADVERBS
    • UPSIDE DOWN SUBORDINATION
    • USAGE
    • VAGUE WORDS
    • VARIANT SPELLINGS
    • VERB AGREEMENT
    • VERB CONJUGATION
    • VERB TENSES
    • VERBS
    • veterans day
    • VIS-A-VIS
    • vocabulary
    • WAS VS WERE
    • WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD
    • WEIRDEST LANGUAGES
    • WELLBEING
    • WERE VS WAS
    • What Does Hoi Pollio Mean
    • WHAT'S AN APPOSITIVE
    • When to Capitalize After a Colon
    • WHEN TO HYPHENATE PREFIXES
    • WHILE VS ALTHOUGH
    • WHO AND WHOM
    • WHO KNOWS
    • who vs whom
    • WHOA WOAH WHOAH
    • whom
    • whomever
    • WHOSE AND WHO'S
    • WHOSE VS WHO'S
    • WHOSE VS. WHO'S
    • WITH VS. OF
    • WORD CHOICE
    • WORD USAGE
    • WORDINESS
    • WORSE COMES TO WORST VS WORST COMES TO WORST
    • WRITING
    • WRITING BOOKS
    • WRITING CRAFT
    • WRITING FOR CLARITY
    • WRITING SKILLS
    • WRITING STYLE
    • WRITING TIPS
    • WRONG VS. WRONGLY
    • XMAS
    • ZEGUMA
    • ZERO RELATIVE PRONOUN

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