Here’s a quick question to exercise your brain: is the following statement true or false? Politicians, such as Donald Trump, are keen to dispense with conventional politics. Congratulations to those of you who said it was false. The above sentence…
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Got to dash? Hyphens, en dashes and em dashes
These little lines cause more than a little confusion. Here’s a quick-fire introduction to how to use them. Hyphens Let’s start with hyphens, as they’re the easiest (at least in theory!). Hyphens are used exclusively to join parts of words,…
Tagged with: compound words, dash, dashes, em dash, em rule, en dash, en rule, hyphen, hyphenation, hyphens, modifier, modifiers
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Punctuation
Defining things or adding information? – Correcting relative clauses
Everybody loves a quiz, don’t they? Well, if you do, read on. Relative clauses (sentence components starting with ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘that’, ‘whom’ or ‘whose’) are quite possibly one of the most confusing areas of English grammar. Just when you think…
Tagged with: quiz, relative clause, relative clauses, that, which, who, whom
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing
Who is Hugh Jackilometresan? – The Dangers of Find and Replace
Players of Trivial Pursuit have been amused and baffled in recent years by the inclusion of a question about that well-known Australian actor Hugh Jackilometresan. Find and replace the space In a previous blog post, we sang the praises of…
Tagged with: find and replace, funny spelling mistakes, global find and replace, replace all
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Spelling, Style
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Spelling, Style