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Common Errors Workbook: Grammar

1. Agreement errors using each

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2. Confusing the past tense and past participle forms of irregular verbs

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3. Dangling and disruptive modifiers

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4. Empty intensifiers

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5. Faulty parallel structure

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6. Fragments

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7. Indefinite pronouns

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8. Irregular adjectives and adverbs: good/well, bad/badly, real/really, fewer/less, and further/farther

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9. Main clauses connected with conjunctive adverbs and transitional phrases

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10. Missing verb endings

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11. Passive voice

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12. Placement of limiting modifiers

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13. Problems created by the pronoun “one” used as a subject

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14. Pronoun agreement with compound antecedents

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15. Run-on sentences

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16. Sentences that begin with infinitive phrases followed by a passive

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17. Subjects separated from verbs

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18. There is and It is sentences

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19. To be verbs

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20. Unnecessary tense shift

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21. Vague use of this

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22. Who or Whom

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