Today the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records related to “parallel construction,” the government’s practice of falsifying a trail of evidence in order to conceal ...
These are parallel arteries, and while there are plenty of ways to avoid too much congestion, even a casual look at a map suggests doing both at the same time could prompt a lot of drivers hoping to ...
I love being a copy editor because I like thinking about grammar, to catch other people’s errors and having an excuse to get Urbann Turbann regularly after a shift. Wait. There’s something wrong with ...
The parallel element is the repeating “whether” clause. Here is an example of a sentence lacking parallel construction: The opening statement is intended to inform the jury about the nature of the ...
What does parallel construction look like? We identified a case in Arizona where government officials illegally tracked a suspect’s rental car with a GPS device they’d secretly installed without a ...
Feel like putting your word smarts to the test? See if you can spot a problem in the following sentence: “Jones has been featured on ‘Today,’ ‘60 Minutes’ and in such publications as People and the ...
As pressure increases to understand capital cost prior to the first spade touching dirt, more healthcare owners are turning to a Parallel Estimating process to improve understanding of exposure and ...
To increase productivity, Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) is planning to start parallel construction activities required for building metro in Lucknow. An official said, “As soon as we get a ...
In celebration of National Grammar Day, today’s training comes from NewsU’s most popular course: Cleaning Your Copy. Can’t figure out why a sentence just doesn’t sound right. The problem might be a ...