SSentence Style
| S1 | Parallelism |
| a | With items in a series |
| b | With paired ideas |
| c | Repeated words |
| S2 | Needed words |
| a | In compound structures |
| b | that |
| c | In comparisons |
| d | a, an, and the |
| S3 | Problems with modifiers |
| a | Limiting modifiers such as only, even |
| b | Misplaced phrases and clauses |
| c | Awkwardly placed modifiers |
| d | Split infinitives |
| e | Dangling modifiers |
| S4 | Shifts |
| a | Point of view |
| b | Verb tense |
| c | Verb mood and voice |
| d | Indirect to direct questions or quotations |
| S5 | Mixed constructions |
| a | Mixed grammar |
| b | Illogical connections |
| c | is when, is where, reason . . . is because |
| S6 | Sentence emphasis |
| a | Coordination and subordination |
| b | Choppy sentences |
| c | Ineffective coordination |
| d | Ineffective subordination |
| e | Excessive subordination |
| f | Special techniques |
| S7 | Sentence variety |
| a | Sentence openings |
| b | Sentence structures |
| c | Inverted order |
| d | Question or quotation |