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Common Errors Workbook: Grammar
1. Agreement errors using
each
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Sentence Practice 1
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2. Confusing the past tense and past participle forms of irregular verbs
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Sentence Practice 1
Sentence Practice 2
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Paragraph Practice 3
3. Dangling and disruptive modifiers
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Sentence Exercise 1
Sentence Exercise 2
Paragraph Exercise 1
Paragraph Exercise 2
4. Empty intensifiers
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5. Faulty parallel structure
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6. Fragments
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Sentence Practice 4
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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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Sentence Practice 1
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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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Paragraph Exercise 1
Paragraph Exercise 2
Sentence Exercise 1
Sentence Exercise 2
12. Placement of limiting modifiers
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Sentence Practice 1
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Sentence Practice 3
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13. Problems created by the pronoun one used as a subject
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Sentence Practice 1
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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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Sentence Exercise 1
Sentence Exercise 2
Paragraph Exercise 1
Paragraph Exercise 2
19.
To be
verbs
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Paragraph Exercise 1
Paragraph Exercise 2
Sentence Exercise 1
Sentence Exercise 2
20. Unnecessary tense shift
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Sentence Practice 1
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Sentence Practice 3
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21. Vague use of
this
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Sentence Practice 1
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22.
Who
or
Whom
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