Here are the replays of The Art of Copyediting one-to-one mentoring sessions with you. The dates of the sessions and topics discussed are mentioned for your convenience. Hope you enjoy these!

Session 1 (13 Jun 2022)

Sentence components, verbs, linking verbs, clauses, phrases, apostrophe categories, discussion of apostrophe sentences

Session 2 (20 Jun 2022)

Discussion of apostrophe exercise; discussion of Rule 2 and Rule 3

Session 3 (21 Jun 2022)

Discussion of sentences with serial commas; some tips on sentence analysis; important concepts discussed in Rule 4

Session 4 (23 Jun 2022)

Exposition of Rule 5: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive elements

Session 5 (27 Jun 2022)

Review of Rule 5 (cont'd); sentence analysis using punctuationless sentences

Session 6 (29 Jun 2022)

General discussions; Review of concepts discussed in Rule 6: Keeping related words together

Session 7 (30 Jun 2022)

Limiting and squinting modifiers, Rule 7: Introductory elements, connection between intro and main clause; sentence analysis

Session 8 (27 Jul 2022)

Review of Rule 7: illogical links, participial phrases, correcting dangling modifiers, comma after introductory element

Session 9 (28 Jul 2022)

Continuation of sentence analysis; analysis of a single sentence reveals how Rules 4, 5, 7, and 8 are applied while editing

Session 10 (2 Aug 2022)

Continuation of sentence analysis; understanding expletives, restrictive/nonrestrictive possibilities (Rule 5), applying Rule 12 (parallelism)

Session 11 (3 Aug 2022)

Continuation of sentence analysis (punctuationless sentences), grappling with restrictive/nonrestrictive elements again

Session 12 (4 Aug 2022)

Recognizing expletive, intro, nonrestrictive elements, subject with two predicates; understanding the relationship between sentence parts

Session 13 (8 Aug 2022)

Categorization of sentences using SP1 types; grappling with restrictive/nonrestrictive distinctions, comma after intro elements

Session 14 (22 Aug 2022)

Chit-chat (no language discussions)