Can you spot what’s wrong in the Mistake Monday image below? Please post your answer as a comment.
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
I often recommend my “read out loud” method for finding mistakes, but that wouldn’t help you to find the error that caught my eye in this week’s Mistake Monday.
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment.
Hint: reading this item out loud would probably help you find the big problem.
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment.
Hint: spell-checking software might not catch this one.
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. This is an obvious mistake.
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. I think this one is easy. What do you think?
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Do you leave spaces around slashes in expressions such as “and/or” or do you open up spaces, using “and / or”? I’ve seen both styles.
The online AP Stylebook (paid subscription required) says “No space on either side of the slash.”
Here’s what Garner’s Modern American Usage says about “and/or”:
A legal and business expression dating from the mid-19th century, and/or has been vilified for most for most of its life—and rightly so. To avoid ambiguity, don’t use it…. Or alone usually suffices.
Notice that Garner doesn’t open up spaces around the slash. Also, he admits that there are times when this expression is useful.
I will continue to avoid putting spaces around my forward slashes.
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Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment.
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment.
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment.
This one didn’t jump out at me when I reviewed the image. Will you do better than I did?
I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
