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The Grammar Guru

Play along! Tweet some #SpuriousButPlausible grammar and usage rules the Grammar Guru could feature in a column. Here’s a blank if you’d like to put them in cartoon format, too:

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Almost perfect, part 2

Continued from Almost perfect, part 1:

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A two-frame cartoon. Frame 1: Bespectacled editor sits at her desk, working on a manuscript with pencil in hand. Curly-haired editor comes in and says, "You're still working on that manuscript? I thought you said it was clean!" Frame 2: Bespectacled editor responds, "It's a little TOO clean. I'm still not finding anything on my re-read and am having a crisis about my life's purpose.

See Almost perfect, part 2.

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Scheduling

Four-frame cartoon. Frame 1: A managing editor sits at a desk and talks to two editors. She says, "The timeline’s tight, so you two will have to do the substantive and copy editing in parallel." Frame 2: The editors stare back at her. Frame 3: The editors look at one another. Frame 4: You see the managing editor falling, having been thrown out the window.

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Almost perfect, part 2

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