Dear Sir,
I’m an English teacher with a Cambridge CELTA qualification. I understand grammar and punctuation better than anyone I know. My childhood/teenage English schooling was almost all grammar, plus composition.
I can give the technical name and function of every word in a sentence. We had to learn to actually diagram every word and label them. Nazi is the only word for it. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, gerunds, infinitives, participles, predicate nominatives etc.
We also learnt perfect punctuation. My English training from primary up was old fashioned, extremely detailed grammar. We also learnt things like not to end sentences with prepositions, not to put prepositional phrases in the wrong places, and the wrong use of words etc.
In regards to the overall article/work, I also understand about paragraphs and how each thought needs to be expressed orderly. I have published a book of poetry myself.
I’m absolutely confident that I would not only edit perfectly, but also work very fast. I know when something isn’t right straight away, and I’m at the point where I correct things without thinking, so to speak.
Overall, this suits me down to the ground and I don’t find it difficult in the least. It’s a breeze for me, this sort of thing.
May I ask, how much work needs editing each week?
Kind Regards,
Lydia Western (Bathurst, NSW, Australia)