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Do You Need a Skilled Chicago-Style Editor?

 

Do You Need a Skilled Chicago-Style Editor?

Faith Brynie

Editor: Chicago Manual of Style

Can you find the mistakes in these sentences? If you can, you may not need our services. If you can’t…

(Careful. Some are OK and some have more than one error.) 

1. His wife Linda accompanied him on his trip. His son, Albert, did not.
2. Everyone has a right to their opinion.
3. Marcus’ girlfriend likes to spend her holidays with the Smith’s.
4. Having skipped both breakfast and lunch, that stale donut looked like a T-bone steak to Earl.
5. Barack Obama is President of the United States but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the face of America abroad.
6. Hasn’t everyone read “Tale of Two Cities?”
7. He was experiencing his midlife crisis: everyone could see that.
8. Norbert said, “According to Roosevelt, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’”
9. He was tall, thin, and had a long, white beard.
10. While he never wanted to see her again, he went to her wedding anyway.
11. The hairstyle which Michaela had chosen earned her a great deal of ridicule in certain circles.
12. His favorite song is “Hair”; his favorite Broadway play is Hair.

 

Email me your answers and I’ll send you your score.

 

 
 
  
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