Posts Tagged: usage quiz

Tweets and teases need a second look (new Grammar Guide quiz)

Posted February 16th, 2015 by Pam Nelson & filed under confused words, Grammar Guides, Quizzes, Grammar Quiz, Journalism, Usage, word choice.

I have a new Grammar Guide quiz (No. 76) for you to try. This one uses images of online tweets and… Read more »

Want to play “Geeks’ Revenge” at ACES 2014?

Posted March 10th, 2014 by Pam Nelson & filed under ACES conference, Copy Editing, Grammar, Usage.

I’ve come up with a new version of a grammar/usage game that I’ve played with newspaper interns and others over… Read more »

Verbs and the problems they give us – Quiz No. 67

Posted June 24th, 2012 by Pam Nelson & filed under Copy Editing, Grammar Guides, Quizzes, Grammar Quiz, irregular verbs, lay-lie, subject-verb agreement, Usage.

Copy editors need to keep their eyes on verbs. Readers notice when verbs don’t agree with their subjects. Yet it’s… Read more »