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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