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Genuine ambiguity cause by a that-which error

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 12/16/2009 11:11 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

What they're teaching my kids about punctuation and grammar

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 12/16/2009 11:06 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

that-which errors in the UCC?

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 12/16/2009 8:54 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Apostrophes--a practice I do not like

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 10/30/2009 9:25 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Ending sentences and clauses with prepositions

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 10/28/2009 12:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Splitting infinitives

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 9/8/2009 10:33 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Phrasal adjective, compound modifiers, and hyphens--more

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 7/23/2009 7:14 AM | Add Comment

Question: Why don't lawyers hyphenate phrasal adjectives?

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 4/28/2009 12:16 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Some common problems in legal writing--a series, part 6: Punctuation

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 4/28/2009 8:28 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Some common problem in legal writing, a series--part 4: Passive voice

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 4/8/2009 5:59 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Some common problems in legal writing, a series--part 1: Overview

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 4/1/2009 7:24 AM | Add Comment

Parsing the "transportation product liability" text, example 1

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 3/11/2009 10:52 AM | Add Comment

"that" deletion

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 3/2/2009 1:52 PM | Add Comment

The presidential oath, splitting verb phrases, and the Texas Law Review MoUS

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 1/23/2009 9:48 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Lists followed by modifiers--postmodification

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 1/20/2009 11:53 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why I like the serial comma

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 1/20/2009 11:47 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

When the passive voice is used

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 11/13/2008 12:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

When verbs become nouns

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 11/5/2008 1:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Writing numbers--a clarification

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 10/22/2008 1:40 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Writing numbers--one last blast

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 10/21/2008 3:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Writing numbers--more

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 10/20/2008 9:36 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Writing numbers--consistency

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 10/15/2008 1:48 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Mind your prepositions

Posted by Wayne Schiess at 9/24/2008 4:12 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment
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