breaking the rules Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/breaking-the-rules/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:58:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg breaking the rules Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/breaking-the-rules/ 32 32 Breaking All Some of the Rules https://old.wordsbyapro.com/breaking-all-some-rules/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-all-some-rules Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:24:15 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1790 The grammar police nabbed me recently. A client whose academic paper I was editing objected to one of my corrections. He pointed out that in a sentence where the subject is in the form “Not only…but also,” the verb must agree with the noun in the “but also” part. Example: “Not only language ninjas but […]

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