Chicago Style Workout 46: Verbs, Part 2
Ready for more action? This month’s workout, “Verbs, Part 2,” focuses on paragraphs 5.117–43 of CMOS 17, which cover mood, tense, number, and other useful concepts.
Chicago Style Workout 45: Verbs, Part 1
Verbs are famous for their ability to show action, but they can also express a condition or a state of being. You might even say (an action) that verbs are (a state of being) the most important part of speech.
Chicago Style Workout 44: Accents and Other Diacritical Marks
It may not be possible to go to a café or a boîte right now for pie à la mode, but there is an alternative. You can take this month’s quiz and test your knowledge of accents and other diacritical marks.
Chicago Style Workout 43: Chicago vs. AP, Round 2
With this month’s workout, you get another chance to test your knowledge of Chicago style versus AP. Whether you know both styles or only one of them, a comparison is a good way to sharpen your skills.
Chicago Style Workout 42: Chicago vs. AP
Some editors spend most of their time following a single style. But many of us, especially if we freelance, are required to know more than one.
Chicago Style Workout 41: Prefixes
This month’s Chicago style workout focuses on the fourth and last section of our hyphenation table, “Words Formed with Prefixes.”
Chicago Style Crossword No. 2: Specialty Publishing
Welcome to our second “Chicago Style” crossword puzzle. The theme this time is specialty publishing.
Chicago Style Workout 40: Grammar, Part 4
This month’s Chicago style workout, “Grammar, Part 4,” focuses on paragraphs 5.39–51 of CMOS 17, which cover personal pronouns, including their possessive and reflexive forms.
Chicago Style Crossword No. 1: Editorially Speaking
For this month’s workout, we invite you to play (and solve) our very first “Chicago Style” crossword puzzle.
Chicago Style Workout 39: Word Usage, Part 9
This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 9,” finishes our run through the “Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases” in section 5.250 of CMOS 17. For our usage finale, we’re focusing on words beginning with the letters t as in “that” through w as in “whomever.”
