MAPS Maddening Muddle: Wordoku September ‘07

To our chagrin (disappointment, yes Lindsay had to look up the word), our wildly popular wordoku muddles were themselves found to be muddled (a.k.a. fouled up). Here’s the corrected version along with the (correct) answer key (both are in .pdf format which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to load and print). If you find any more errors, [...]

Shared versus Separate Possessives

Do you ever wonder, as you’re writing your term paper, whether to say “Clark’s and Sacagawea’s mooseskins” or “Clark and Sacagawea’s mooseskins”? Maybe you don’t, but this is a question of shared and separate possessives, and knowing how to punctuate your sentence so it says what you want to say is very useful. Here are [...]