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Here’s a sentence, slightly disguised, that I came across in my editing work a while back:
AeroSpain, the international airline of Spain, offers airfare and vacation packages to these fantastic destinations with a bonus to Paris or London.
When people think about the writing problems that must be dealt with in the editing process, they think of sp...
Little grammar and usage issues that drive other people nuts don’t bother me. That’s because a lot of the “errors” that annoy a lot of people are superstitions – stuff like how you supposedly can’t use “like” to mean “such as” or how you supposedly can’t begin a sentence with the word “and.” Not true and not true.
A lot of real errors don’t bother me, either, becaus...
In the 1800s, novels were loaded with exclamation points. Nowadays, excessive use of this punctuation mark is laughable.
One of the most interesting things about editing work is it forces me to notice all the ways a sentence can go wrong. Here’s an example from an article I did recently: “The flu vaccine can help lower your risk of infection and may reduce both the severity of symptoms as well as the duration of illness.”
A lot of people will home in on the word “both” here, correctly...