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Melissa Balick
Melissa Balick

Feb 13

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You May Be Using These 5 Words Wrong

They’re all-too-commonly mixed up by writers and non-writers alike

A common meme

I’m a word nerd, so I notice when people punctuate dialog wrong or write “you and I” when it should be “you and me.”

Are these things truly important in the scheme of things? Of course not.

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Melissa Balick

Melissa Balick

Fiction writer with a couple stories published in literary magazines, nanny, reader of way too many books.

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