Common Grammar and Punctuation Errors
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Common Grammar and Punctuation Errors
So far in this course, you have learned several crucial skills to help you write effectively:
Now, you will learn some additional skills to add to your writer’s toolbox:
- organizing your ideas
- using sentence variety
- avoiding common sentence errors (run-ons, comma splices, and fragments)
Now, you will learn some additional skills to add to your writer’s toolbox:
- using apostrophes correctly
- avoiding common spelling mistakes
- using pronouns correctly (such as “I” and “me”)
- avoiding vague pronouns
- using the correct verbs in a sentence
Carefully study the following Grammar and Punctuation Tutorial. You will apply what you learn in this tutorial to the following self-check quiz as well as on future assignments and exams. To listen to the audio recording as you read, click on the button at the top of the tutorial.
NOTE: If you would like some free (auto-graded) practice exercises, try this site.
If you would like to see additional examples of common sentence errors, refer to the following pages in your copy of the English Language Arts Handbook.
NOTE: If you would like some free (auto-graded) practice exercises, try this site.
- using apostrophes correctly (quiz #90)
- avoiding common spelling mistakes (quizzes #125–132)
- using pronouns correctly (such as “I” and “me”) (quizzes #103 and 104, and 108–110)
- avoiding vague pronouns (click this link)
- using the correct verb in a sentence (quizzes #31–39)
If you would like to see additional examples of common sentence errors, refer to the following pages in your copy of the English Language Arts Handbook.
- using apostrophes correctly (p. 27–28)
- avoiding common spelling mistakes (p. 11–16)
- using pronouns correctly (such as “I” and “me”) (p. 80–83)
- avoiding vague pronouns (p. 83–84)
- using the correct verb in a sentence (p. 76–77)