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The serial semicolons
If you are a copyeditor, I'm sure you know serial commas, aka Oxford comma. That's the comma that precedes the last element in series as in He loves reading, editing, teaching, and leading the team. Yes, that one that follows "teaching". You as well know that serial...
however vs. though
I just tried to clarify the usage of "however" and "though".
Test yourself – Saller’s copyediting quiz
Glad to meet you again. I would like to take you to Carol Fisher Saller's copyediting quiz. That is a small list of nine sentences. Try them out and see for yourself your copyediting skills. In her next post, First Do No Harm, she discussed the answers, too. But wait....
each of them vs they each
Here is another trivia. The indefinite pronoun "each" is singular. It takes a singular verb. Each creation is different. Note that "each" comes before a singular noun and takes a singular verb. If "each" is followed by an "of" phrase, still it takes a singular verb....
well, is that good?
In a recent interview aired on channel Star Vijay, Gopinath interviewed a Tamil actor. The actor was recalling how he felt it difficult to perform certain dance movements. When Gopinath asked the actor how one of his co-actors dances, he said, "He is a good dancer;...
(faulty) parallelism
As part of rebuilding this blog (I started this blog way back in 2008, with nothing being posted till now), I was skimming through various WordPress pages. In the About page, I saw this sentence: It also means you are free to use it [WordPress] for anything from your...