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Pam Nelson: The Grammar Guide

 

Archive for August 2011

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20: Grammar Guide quiz: Just a note before I go

This is my final post on the Triangle Grammar Guide. I was among the copy editors and designers at The News & Observer whose jobs were eliminated in Raleigh. I, like the rest, was given the choice of leaving the company or accepting a job in a new central publishing center at the Charlotte Observer. I chose to continue to practice my profession, and I will begin work at the publishing center on Aug. 22. The publishing center will take over the design and copy editing for the Charlotte Observer, The News & Observer, the Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald[.....]

3: Watch your “lay” and “lie”

The crawl editor/writer on MSNBC this morning needed to double-check the use of “lay” and “lie.”