Prep'ing work for submission
In my story - Proactive Reincarnation, someone caught me with a its/it's error. They didn't remember where it was but it was easy to find. I told Open Office to find all occurances of its and it's and read them to make sure they were correct. While doing that I also decided to check for to, too, two and there, their, the're, they're. I thnk MS word can be set to flag you on some of these words but I don't use it. So my question is what other groups of words like these should i (and all of us) check for before submitting a story.
What other things do you check for before submitting a story.
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Re:Prep'ing work for submission
How about:
[list]a lot --- allot
affect --- effect
principal --- principle
your --- you're[/list:u]
-anneliese
Re:Prep'ing work for submission
Thanks for the additional items. When I went to this discussion I glanced through my original posting and in the last sentance I saw an "i" instead of an "I". Oh well, one more thing to add to the list.
Re:Prep'ing work for submission
noone (no such word, you want "no one")
practice vs. practise
capital vs. capitol
rein vs. reign
stationary vs. stationery
precedents vs. precedence
sit vs. set
And no snickering for this one:
lay, laid, have laid vs. lie, lay, have lain
I put some here you probably saw already:
http://www.acmfox.com/sfwwforum/viewtopic.php?t=30
http://www.acmfox.com/sfwwforum/viewtopic.php?t=32
I'm not a complete idiot -- some parts are missing.
To lay
I've studied and memorized the stupid lay vs lie for years now and still I screw it up every time. Now i just try to avoid it but that's not always easy. One would think with a degree in English I could master these silly verbs, but they just don't teach grammar anymore. :oops:
All I remember is
To Lay: is to lay an egg, as a chicken
To Lie: is to tell an untruth
But of course, one can also "lie" down. And there's always Faulkner's: "As I Lay Dying."
I check for any major homonyms. two vs too vs to (never inputting this one into the "find"); here vs hear.
And many others already stated.
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