I have a new Grammar Guide quiz (No. 76) for you to try. This one uses images of online tweets and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: word choice
Check out the new Grammar Guide quiz
I’ve posted a new quiz (No. 75) that has six multiple-choice questions and four fill-in-the-blank questions with images. All have… Read more »
Try a new Grammar Guide quiz (No. 74 with images)
I have a new Grammar Guide quiz for you to try, No. 74. This one is fill-in-the-blank. You’ll see some… Read more »
Confused words: Quiz on affect and effect
I have written a new Grammar Guide quiz (No. 73) that is all about the often confused words affect and… Read more »
Try a new quiz from the Grammar Guide
I’ve created a quiz that I hope will work for those using iPads. You can find it here. The form… Read more »
Copy editing in a hub: You’re your own QA
Charles Apple posted on his blog Saturday about a mistake in the pages of The News & Observer of Raleigh,… 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 »
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 »
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 »
If you see something, say something: The copy editor’s code
The first sentence in a recent news story in the Clayton News-Star, the community newspaper that is delivered to my… Read more »
What, me worry? When a copy editor reads the paper
My recovery from newspapers has hit a few bumps lately. I haven’t missed the work exactly, but I have seen… Read more »
Sometimes it’s just a spelling error — Quiz No. 68
John McIntyre wrote recently in his You Don’t Say blog about whether an incorrect spelling could be considered a typo… Read more »
Word choice quiz: More tricky sentences
I’ve run across some interesting examples of confused words lately. Sometimes, even in context, these sentences can be quite challenging…. Read more »