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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.”

January 28, 2020 in Chicago Style Workouts.

What Does an Editor Know? A Quiz

To celebrate the end of another decade, we’ve put together eleven questions designed to test your knowledge of some random editorial facts.

December 20, 2019 in Manual Miscellany.

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.

October 29, 2019 in Chicago Style Workouts.
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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.”

August 27, 2019 in Chicago Style Workouts.
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Chicago Style Workout 38: Word Usage, Part 8

This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 8,” returns to our “Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases” in section 5.250 of CMOS 17. This time we’re focusing on words beginning with the letters r as in “rack” through s as in “straight.”

July 23, 2019 in Chicago Style Workouts.
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Chicago Style Workout 34: Editing and Proofreading Quiz No. 2

It’s time for another editing and proofreading quiz! This is the second in a series of workouts that will apply your editing knowledge and proofreading skills to Chicago style.

February 26, 2019 in Chicago Style Workouts.

Where Are You on Our Grammar-Stickler Sliding Scale?

On a scale of 1 to 10, can you guess how big a stickler you are? (Your friends and colleagues probably can.) Just for fun, measure your peeving profile with this quiz.

December 20, 2018 in Announcements, Manual Miscellany.

Chicago Style Workout 32:
Grammar, Part 3

Pronouns are small but powerful words that often trip us up. This month’s Chicago style workout, “Grammar, Part 3,” centers on sections 5.27–37 of CMOS 17, which cover the definitions and uses of pronouns.

November 27, 2018 in Chicago Style Workouts.

Chicago Style Workout 31:
Word Usage, Part 5

This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 5,” centers on section 5.250 of CMOS 17. Today we focus on words beginning with the letters i through k. Writing and editing are more efficient when you never have to look up imply and infer or

October 30, 2018 in Chicago Style Workouts.

Chicago Style Workout 30: General Rules of Alphabetizing

This month’s workout, “General Rules of Alphabetizing,” is taken from CMOS 17, sections 16.62–70. Advanced editors might tackle the questions cold; learners can study sections 16.62–70 of the Manual before

September 25, 2018 in Chicago Style Workouts.

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