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Grammar and Style
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Grammar and Style

by Mark Peters
February 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
6h 29m
English
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CHAPTER15

Avoiding and Fixing Common Errors

In This Chapter

  • How to fix sentence fragments
  • Repairing run-on sentences and comma splices
  • Clarifying pronoun reference
  • Avoiding dangling metaphors
  • Keeping your subject and verb in agreement

Nobody’s perfect, especially when it comes to language. We all make mistakes when writing, and there are a lot of types of writing errors: spelling problems, agreement problems, improper capitalization, and so on. Fortunately, some mistakes happen a lot more often than others.

Why “fortunately”? Well, imagine if there were no consistency to writing errors. Imagine if the 200 most common errors all occurred with ...

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ISBN: 9781615644407