{"id":379,"date":"2011-12-20T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/tactical-tuesday-advice-for-self_9397\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:22:19","slug":"tactical-tuesday-advice-for-self_9397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/tactical-tuesday-advice-for-self_9397\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;re still on the subject of comma placement. Here are five more rules to help you self-edit your manuscript into publication:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comma Rule #11<\/strong>: When composite adjectives are used, a comma is not necessary as each of the adjectives modify each other. However, when coordinate adjectives that modify the noun are used, a comma should be placed between the adjectives.<\/p>\n<p>Example: The murky green waters of the bayou were not enough to prevent the hungry, lurking, predatory gator from searching for a tasty meal.<\/p>\n<p>In the above example, <em>murky<\/em> describes the <em>green<\/em> and <em>green<\/em> describes the waters, while <em>hungry<\/em>, <em>lurking<\/em>, and <em>predatory<\/em> all describe the gator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comma Rule #12<\/strong>: When setting out examples introduced by <em>such as<\/em> or <em>especially<\/em>, a comma is used.<\/p>\n<p>Example: I love specialty candies, such as truffles and key lime fudge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comma Rule #13<\/strong>: Use a comma when a word or a part of a sentence is omitted.<\/div>\n<div>Example: Some classmates I met at my last reunion were successful; some, more so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comma Rule #14<\/strong>: When adjectives follow the noun they describe, they are set off with commas.<\/p>\n<p>Example: The picnic table, scarred by the etching of teenage lovers, sits as it has always done beside the concession stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comma Rule #15<\/strong>: When a statement is followed by a confirmatory question, the question is set off from the sentence with a comma.<\/p>\n<p>Example: John will make it here for Christmas, won&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>Next week we&#8217;ll discuss the last five rules of comma placement.<\/p>\n<p>Please have a very Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still on the subject of comma placement. Here are five more rules to help you self-edit your manuscript into publication: Comma Rule #11: When composite adjectives are used, a comma is not necessary as each of the adjectives modify each other. However, when coordinate adjectives that modify the noun are used, a comma should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}