Episode 57

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Published on:

28th Oct 2020

Zombie rules we can do without, part 1

Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk about zombie rules, and why they have no place in a professional editor's toolbox.

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  • What a zombie rule is
  • Why split infinitives are not grammatically problematic
  • Why it's okay to start a sentence with a conjunction

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Music Credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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