National Grammar Day Contest: The AnaGrammar Game

March forth, good grammarians! National Grammar Day is right around the corner—Monday, March 4—but we can’t wait to celebrate our ability “to speak well, write well, and help others do the same.” To kick off our grammar festivities, we give you the AnaGrammar Game!

Unscrambled the grammar-related anagrams below and submit your answers to onlineeditor@copyediting.com by Saturday at midnight (PST) for a chance to win your choice of a Copyediting audio conference CD ($49 value). We’ll draw a winner* from the entries with the most correct answers, revealing the winner and the answers on Monday during our Grammar Day celebration.

1. As clue =                         [1 word]
2. Jinn coconut =                         [1 word]
3. Lame pillars =                         [1 word]
4. Idiom ref =                         [1 word]
5. Neat merge =                         [1 word]
6. I fit in vine =                         [1 word]
7. Vintage rioter =                         [1 word]
8. Fact stepper =                         [2 words]
9. Napoleon purrs on =                         [2 words]
10. Fancied tinier tile =                         [2 words]

Stay tuned for more National Grammar Day celebration on Copyediting, including discounts and grammar-related posts!

Answers: The answers to the AnaGrammar Game are now up!

* The winner may request that we not publish his or her name. However, we must be given a mailing address where we can send the prize.

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