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
