Hello, class!

I have read many headlines while reading all the news stories from the Associated Press. One thing I never realized is the active voice. On a headline like "Trump warns Russia" it does not mean that Trump would currently be warning Russia, but that he already warned them. You use that past tense writing even though it is still happening. Another example would be something along the lines of "Wal-Mart cancels trade deals with China." This finally made sense to me, I had always read headlines like this and wondered why it was in the past tense, but now I understand the rule.

An editing mistake that I found this week was also at work again. There is a sales pamphlet that talks about the commission structure of my job. It says that "...3 sales..." gets you to the next pay tier. I noticed that the "3" needs to be spelled out as "three" until it reaches 10 and so on.