AboutCatherine Van Herrin Expertise I am a professional writer, editor, and proofreader with 23 years' experience. My specialty is copyediting and proofreading manuscripts. I am extremely detail-oriented. I use AP Style.
I provide crystal-clear, clean grammar; and strict attention to style, consistency, flow, logic, accuracy, and spelling.
No sentence diagraming or basic explanation of verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.
Experience
Experience: BA, English. Twenty-three years' professional experience in editing, writing, and proofreading. Full-time freelancer. I provide crystal-clear, clean grammar; strict attention to style, consistency, flow, logic, accuracy, and spelling, and I work quickly and efficiently.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Speeches, Biography, Autobiography, Short stories, Novels, Medical journal drafts and articles, Art history, Headline/subhead writing/lead paragraphs, pulled quotes, book critiques/reviews, How-to (special circumstances only; inquire specifically}, Career, work/lifestyles, resumes, CVs, Health, Calendars/copy, Photography/copy, Metaphysical, astrological reports or copy,
Family, historical summaries, self-publishing, Academic manuscripts [university level and above only], Self-help, holistic, spiritual, romance, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Ghostwriter/co-author [special circumstances only; inquire specifically], Consultancies, contributing writer, Op/Ed columnist, poetry.
Publications Online e-zines; poetry presses; please inquire for details.
Education/Credentials BA, English, University of Georgia.
Graduate Study, English, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
Past/Present Clients Will provide full list of references upon request.
Among men, on the contrary, the most dissimilar geniuses are of use to one another; the different produces of their respective talents, by the general disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, being brought, AS IT WERE, into a common stock, where every man may purchase whatever part of the produce of other men's talents he has occasion for.
What does "as it were" mean?
Thanks
Answer Dear Luke:
This is a kind of "old-fashioned" term (for those of us in the United States, at least; people in the UK still use this rather readily). It's also used along with "professorial" speech, such as when a teacher is lecturing on a certain subject, etc., and it means, in essence, "for example," or "so to speak," or "as we understand it."
It's just a really 'high-falutin' kind of language; very lofty, very unnecessary, really! But people still like to use it for some reason!
