{"id":2635,"date":"2015-10-02T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2015-10-02T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:42:23","slug":"simple-writing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/10\/simple-writing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Writing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Business Review\u2019s Management Tip of the Day covers 7 common writing mistakes.\u00a0 This may be the most helpful thing you read today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Affect\/Effect:<\/strong> <em>Affect<\/em> is a verb; <em>effect<\/em> is a noun. It affected him. The effect was startling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All Right\/Alright:<\/strong> Although <em>alright<\/em> is gaining ground, the correct choice is still <em>all right<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Lot:<\/strong> <em>A lot<\/em> is two words, not one. <em>Allot<\/em> means \u201cto parcel out.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Between You and I:<\/strong> Nope. <em>Between you and me<\/em> is the correct phrase.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complement\/Compliment:<\/strong> Things that work well together <em>complement<\/em> each other. <em>Compliments<\/em> are a form of praise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Farther\/Further:<\/strong> <em>Farther<\/em> is for physical distance; <em>further<\/em> is for metaphorical distance. How much farther? Our plan can\u2019t go any further.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lay\/Lie:<\/strong> Subjects <em>lie down<\/em>; objects are <em>laid<\/em> down. He should lie down. Lay the reports there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Business Review\u2019s Management Tip of the Day covers 7 common writing mistakes.\u00a0 This may be the most helpful thing you read today: Affect\/Effect: Affect is a verb; effect is a noun. It affected him. The effect was startling. All Right\/Alright: Although alright is gaining ground, the correct choice is still all right. A Lot: A lot is two words, not one. Allot means \u201cto parcel out.\u201d Between You and I: Nope. Between you and me is the correct phrase. Complement\/Compliment: Things that work well together complement each other. Compliments are a form of praise. Farther\/Further: Farther is for physical distance; further is for metaphorical distance. How much farther? Our&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/10\/simple-writing-tips\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[903,1074,1749,488,1099],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Gv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->