Content Writer
Editing and grammar questions
132 questions on Editing and grammar for content writers, easiest first.
Easy 57
- Active vs passive voiceeasy
- Cite statistics correctlyeasy
- Plain English rewriteeasy
- Use the Oxford commaeasy
- Its or it'seasy
- Subject-verb agreementeasy
- Fix a dangling modifiereasy
- Affect or effecteasy
- Fewer or lesseasy
- Parallel structure in a listeasy
- Fix a comma spliceeasy
- That or whicheasy
- Sentence case headlineseasy
- Cut wordy phraseseasy
- The inverted pyramideasy
- Primary vs secondary sourceseasy
- Recognise patchwritingeasy
- Reading ease scoreseasy
- Hyphenate compound modifierseasy
- Plural possessive apostropheseasy
- Why use a style guideeasy
- Brand voice vs toneeasy
- A brand voice charteasy
- Voice vs toneeasy
- Editing your own first drafteasy
- Who or whomeasy
- Lay or lieeasy
- i.e. or e.g.easy
- Principle or principaleasy
- Ensure, insure or assureeasy
- Complement or complimenteasy
- Then or thaneasy
- Plurals of acronymseasy
- Using a colon before a listeasy
- When to use a semicoloneasy
- Redundant phraseseasy
- Starting a sentence with a numbereasy
- Writing dates for a global audienceeasy
- Writing link texteasy
- Proofreading vs copyeditingeasy
- Loose or loseeasy
- Ending a sentence with a prepositioneasy
- A confusing double negativeeasy
- Writing alt texteasy
- Brand names at the start of a sentenceeasy
- A headline the article does not supporteasy
- Sentence case for interface texteasy
- Words like "simply" and "just"easy
- Choosing active voice in UI texteasy
- Numbers in interface texteasy
- Talking to the user directlyeasy
- Using exclamation markseasy
- Capitalising feature nameseasy
- Emoji in interface texteasy
- Using contractionseasy
- The ellipsis in "Save as…"easy
- Keeping list items paralleleasy
Medium 40
- Helpful content with AI draftsmedium
- Keep brand voice consistentmedium
- Interview a subject expertmedium
- AP style for numbersmedium
- AP vs Chicago on serial commasmedium
- Quote another publication safelymedium
- AI content and search guidancemedium
- When passive voice is the right choicemedium
- Inclusive language editsmedium
- Tighten a wordy sentencemedium
- Title a help articlemedium
- Using Hinglish in copymedium
- 'The team is' or 'the team are'medium
- Singular theymedium
- Between you and memedium
- Misuse of myselfmedium
- Hyphen, en dash or em dashmedium
- Possessive of a name ending in smedium
- Punctuation with quotation marksmedium
- Capitalising job titlesmedium
- Lakh and crore for global readersmedium
- First use of an abbreviationmedium
- A modifier that points both waysmedium
- Are split infinitives wrong?medium
- Turning nouns back into verbsmedium
- Mixed tenses in a paragraphmedium
- Spotting a mixed metaphormedium
- Editing a technical claim you doubtmedium
- Keeping a style sheetmedium
- Checking a percentage increasemedium
- 'If I was' or 'If I were'medium
- Comma after an opening clausemedium
- 'Very unique'medium
- Punctuating bullet listsmedium
- Writing button labelsmedium
- Contractions in brand copymedium
- Misuse of 'literally'medium
- A proofreading techniquemedium
- A statistic that has gone stalemedium
- A product word listmedium
Hard 35
- Factual error after publishinghard
- Where "only" goeshard
- Commas that change meaninghard
- Ambiguous pronoun referencehard
- Percent vs percentage pointshard
- AI draft cites a missing studyhard
- Writing health contenthard
- Playful voice in a payment errorhard
- Order of editing passeshard
- Reading a similarity scorehard
- Reusing another company's charthard
- When humour hurts copyhard
- 'Three times more' vs 'three times as many'hard
- Checking names and titleshard
- A quote attributed to Einsteinhard
- A date and weekday that do not matchhard
- 'One of the writers who ...'hard
- Opinion that reads as facthard
- Percentages that do not add uphard
- 'The average salary is'hard
- Hyphens with -ly adverbshard
- Changing words inside a quotehard
- Cutting words from a quotehard
- Mixed UK and US spellinghard
- Indian English phrases for global readershard
- 'Sign in' vs 'log in' across an apphard
- Rewriting a blaming error messagehard
- Citing Wikipediahard
- Checking a viral photohard
- Writing currency amounts consistentlyhard
- Starting a sentence with 'But'hard
- Cutting corporate jargonhard
- Tone for a new-login alerthard
- Saying "sorry" in every messagehard
- A banner during an outagehard