Silently correctly your grammar

Silently correctly your grammar

Kevin Dayhoff Sunday, October 25, 2015

Oh my goodness. I have been doing this all my life – in spite of the fact that I certainly do not always use correct grammar. (Why do you think I like my editors so much?)

But all this morning at church, Sunday school, pastor’s study and at lunch; I have been “silently correcting grammar.” When I got home, I opened this awesome e-mail from Dave Selby and Sally Selby that had a link to this image. What a hoot. Thank you Dave and Sally Selby – this made my day.

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Punctuation is Powerful

Punctuation is Powerful

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Joan Didion “Her prose is her servant”

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Technically, Didion is immaculate and original. As early as 1963, literary critic Guy Davenport could say, "Her prose is her servant" (371). She understands grammar as a source of "infinite power":

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.... The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind.... The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what's going on in the picture. (Didion 1986, 7)

“If I could believe that going to a barricade would affect man's fate in the slightest I would go to that barricade, and quite often I wish that I could, but it would be less than honest to say that I expect to happen upon such a happy ending” Joan Didion, Morning, After the Sixties 1979 p208

From “Joan Didion” by Sandra Braman
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WP ombud: Growing numbers of readers are complaining about typos and small errors

WP ombud: Growing numbers of readers are complaining about typos and small errors

Washington Post Why that's happening: Between early 2005 and mid-2008, the number of full-time WP copy editors dropped from about 75 to 43 through buyouts or voluntary departures, reports Andrew Alexander.

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Jul. 6, 2009 Copy editing

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Enough already with ‘mediums’

Enough already with ‘mediums’

Friday, July 03, 2009

Hey, fellow armchair copyeditors, do you see anything wrong with this sentence at the Los Angeles Times website?“Two senior Los Angeles Times editors were given new responsibilities today as part of an effort to create a 24-hour newsroom serving multiple mediums.”

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Enough already with ‘mediums’

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Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

by Tina Blue August 11, 2000

Confusion between the words affect and effect is so common that I almost never see either of the words used correctly. Since I read anything that doesn't move fast enough to get away from me, and since I read hundreds of essays by college students each semester, I have reason to believe that this error is not just a misspelling, but an actual misapprehension of the two words and how they are used.

Generally speaking, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. When you affect something, you produce an effect on it. Even in the passive voice, something would be affected, not effected.

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Read Ms. Blue’s entire article and see what effect it has on you: Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

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