Ten Serious Errors to Recognize and Revise

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Fragment

Sentence fragments Subordinate clauses as sentence fragments Other sentence fragments

Fused Sentence

Comma splices and fused sentences Comma splices and fused sentences: Main clauses without and, but, etc. Comma splices and fused sentences. Main clauses with however, for example, etc.

Unclear Pronoun Reference

Pronoun reference: Clear and close reference Pronoun reference: Specific reference [Indefinite it, they, you]

Double negative

Dangling modifiers

Missing Possessive Apostrophe

Missing Punctuation Marks

Colons, dashes, and parentheses Quotation marks End punctuation

Lack of Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-verb agreement Subject-verb agreement Subject-verb agreement: -s or -es endings Subject-verb agreement: Indefinite pronouns

Shift in Person

Unnecessary Commas

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