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Writing and Grammar Presentations One



Avoiding Common Subject and Verb Errors
  • What are subjects and verbs (predicates)?
  • Verb forms
  • Verb tenses
  • Verb tense, voice, and mood
  • Subject and verb agreement
Avoiding Common Noun and Pronoun Errors
  • Nouns
  • Pronouns
  • Pronoun case
  • Pronoun reference and point of view
  • Pronoun agreement
Avoiding Common Sentence Errors
  • Parts of speech and the basic sentence
  • Sentence structure
  • Fragments
  • Run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences
  • Building sentences with subordination and coordination
  • Varying sentence structure
  • Clauses, phrases
  • Types of sentences--simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
Improving Language Usage and Style
  • Transitions
  • Parallelism
  • Formal and informal style and tone
Avoiding Common Determiner, Modifier, and Preposition Errors
  • Adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
  • Prepositional phrases, objects of prepositions
  • Misplaced or dangling modifiers
Avoiding Common Errors in Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling
  • Commas
  • Semicolons and colons
  • Other punctuation
  • Apostrophes
  • Quotation marks and italics
  • Abbreviations and numbers
  • Capitalization
  • Word choice and commonly confused terms

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