Here are some of the things I found interesting or helpful this week: Teresa Schmedding, the president of ACES, wrote… Read more »
Posts By: Pam Nelson
Keep the copy editors, Jeff
As a copy editor, I was heartened that Jeff Bezos’s memo to the staff of the Washington Post after he… Read more »
Let’s get ready to wrangle — er, wangle?
I am creating a grammar/usage game in a quiz show format to present at my workplace. It’s just for fun,… Read more »
Pardon me, but your editing is showing
Seeing evidence of editing in a published work gives me a little thrill. We copy editors strive to make sure… Read more »
Check out the new Grammar Guide quiz (inspired by good usage)
I often use published mistakes for my Grammar Guide quizzes, but today I was inspired by writers and editors who… Read more »
Stay engaged until the end
A few weeks ago, a young journalist’s blog post about leaving her newspaper job made the rounds on the internet…. Read more »
Hyphenated expressions and their place in a sentence
Somehow, I became confused about how to treat compound modifiers that are used not before a noun but elsewhere in… Read more »
Know the idioms
Even native speakers have problems with English idioms. A colleague told me of crossed signals from a misused idiom. An… Read more »
A new quiz for National Grammar Day 2013
Today is National Grammar Day. My fellow grammar geeks have been busy. If you check out the Grammar Day page, you’ll see… Read more »
More about the singular “they”
I participated in an ACES Twitter chat, Your Grammar Question Answered, Tuesday during which we chatted about the singular “they.”… Read more »