April 2009

From ProofreadNOW: The following list contains words we have actually found misused in some otherwise very impressive documents: proposals, annual reports, RFPs, contracts, cover letters, and, of course, advertisements. Perhaps not many people would notice the mistakes. But the people who would notice are probably the people our clients were reaching for specifically in their [...]

From ProofreadNOW: Despite pedantic objection, the use of the phrase “in order to” is a kindness to readers whenever a clause expressing purpose and beginning with to stands at some distance from the verb that heralds it, or when a succession of to‘s might create confusion. In the sentence Kate had seen no way but [...]