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Sentence Fragments: Speaking Up for the Verbless Sentence
Reading through my recent post about word usage, I discovered—I know this will shock you—a rather lengthy sentence fragment. Gracious! Did I write such a thing? Me? Yes indeed. Right there, shamelessly and in broad daylight, I committed a fragment. … Continue reading
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Copywriting Quick-Tip: Handle Pronouns with Care (or, What Does It Mean When It Says “It”?)
Marketing copy is not the stuff of great literature or even popular writing. It’s normally more colloquial, bouncier, prone to pushing the confines of grammar in order to achieve its ends. Yet even in copywriting, there’s a difference between casual … Continue reading
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Tagged copyeditors, copywriting tips, good copywriting, how to write good copy, unclear antecedents, using pronouns correctly
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Copywriting Quick-Tip: Begin with the End
That perfect, grab-’em-by-the-lapels opener that you want for your copy could be hiding at the tail-end of your rough draft. Every copywriting project needs to get airborne some kind of way. You slap down a sentence, follow it with another … Continue reading
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