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When you’re proofreading…
I love this blogpost by Marte Cliff. So often a writer will cram too much into a sentence. Then they make a mistake.
When you proofread what you’ve written, you’re probably looking for mis-used or misspelled words, extra words, and typos. But don’t stop there…
Your purpose in proofreading is to remove all the “stop signs” that make reader think about your words, rather than your meaning.
Misplaced modifiers are huge stop signs, and they are all too common. Even professional writers sometimes forget to re-read their work to make sure it makes sense.
Here are examples I found just yesterday:
From an on-line article:
“The Police Department warned individuals to stay out of the area and then informed the public when the suspect was apprehended through social media.”
“The suspected shooter can be could be seen in this video boasting before he did it over social media:”
From those two sentences, the reader would think that the crime was committed over social media, and the suspect was apprehended through social media.
Simple changes would have made the sentences make sense:
“The police department used social media to warn individuals to stay out of the area and to inform them ... more

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