Train your brain: Red editing pen
Each month, we give you a few sentences which would all benefit from some careful use of your red editing pen. As writers, and regular readers of Writing Magazine, you should not find any of these too difficult. But if you would welcome a little help, you can always check out the suggested solutions below.
Here are this month’s examples:
1 With the dreaded bimonthly sales meeting to attend, Donald accepted this as a nuisance to be born rather than the funnest event in his diary.
2 I shall be late, thought Audrey, and I rarely ever miss a train; her dilemma was that she could not afford a taxi to the station..
3 Reading the book aloud, all the grammatical errors suddenly became apparent including wrong tenses, incorrect punctuation and bad spelling, all of which was muddled together.