GUIDE TO LANGUAGE AND MECHANICS

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PART 1 GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES

  1. Sentence Fragments

  2. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

  3. Verbs

  4. Subject-Verb Agreement

  5. Pronoun Reference

  6. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

  7. Adjectives and Adverbs

  8. Shifts

PART 2 EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

  1. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

  2. Parallel Structure

  3. Sentence Variety

PART 3 WORD CHOICE

  1. Appropriateness

  2. Exact Words

PART 4 PUNCTUATION

  1. End Punctuation

  2. Commas

  3. Semicolons

  4. Colons

  5. Dashes

  6. Parentheses

PART 5 MECHANICS

  1. Capital Letters

  2. Hyphens

  3. Spelling

  4. Vocabulary and Word Roots