Grammar
The quartet, which includes Vincent and (I/me), practices every Thursday.
One of these pronouns is correct.
What is me?
In Canadian business writing, this style of punctuation is preferred.
What is open?
This is when you should start a sentence with a numeral.
What is NEVER!!!
When you edit business writing, prefer this style of capitalization.
What is down?
What is proofreading?
A number of protesters (was/were) chanting slogans.
One of these verbs is correct.
What is were?
These punctuation marks can join two independent clauses.
What are semicolon, colon, and em dash?
Use this style to edit documents with many numerals.
What is technical?
One of these phrases uses a hyphen correctly:
A. Impressively large vocabulary
B. Brightly-coloured fabric
What is A?
This editing professional makes sure artwork is placed correctly.
What is a proofreader?
"As an editor, comma splices are very common" is an example of this error.
What is a dangling modifier?
When using parentheses or quotation marks, place end punctuation in this position.
What is inside?
One of these figures is incorrect:
A. Police found the suspect 10 km from the crime scene.
B. Police found the suspect 10 kms from the crime scene.
C. Police found the suspect ten kilometres from the crime scene.
What is B?
This is when acronyms and initialisms should be spelled out.
What is first use?
This editing professional is in charge of correcting formatting errors.
What is a proofreader?
In the sentence "It is imperative that you arrive on time," the verb arrive is in this mood.
What is subjunctive?
"Fact checking can be your responsibility as an editor; but, you must scope it separately when estimating your hours."
The above sentence is punctuated incorrectly because but is this kind of conjunction.
What is coordinating?
The sentence below has this glaring error.
"Of the students surveyed, 72 percent preferred pepperoni pizza, 24 percent preferred Hawaiian pizza, and 11 percent preferred cheese pizza."What is "The numbers add up to more than 100 percent"?
This resource will help you distinguish Canadian spellings from American and British English.
What is a Canadian dictionary?
What is heavy?
One of these verbs is transitive:
Lie
Lay
What is lay?
One of these sentences contains a restrictive relative clause:
A. "The researchers whose work focussed on environmental carcinogens won an award."
B. "The researchers, whose work focussed on environmental carcinogens, won an award."
What is A?
What is six?
Deal with inconsistent spellings in a document here.
What is a style sheet?
What is stylistic editing?