To Improve Your Business Writing Skills, Avoid This Embarrassing Mistake

To Improve Your Business Writing Skills, Avoid This Embarrassing Mistake

Originally Published October 2017, Updated January 2024 Today’s topic is kind of technical: misrelated constructions. Ugly name, I know. It sounds like some kind of grammar geek speak. But if you want to improve your business writing skills, this is one mistake you don’t want to make. (Although it can be funny when it happens, as you’ll see…) What’s a misrelated construction? A misrelated construction happens when a word or phrase that’s supposed to be connected to a certain word or phrase isn’t and ends up connected to another word...