Chapter 16 Introduction

The Four Most Serious Errors

This chapter emphasizes four major grammar errors that people most often notice.

These four errors may make your meaning harder to understand, and they definitely give readers a bad impression of you. It is like going for a job interview in pajamas. People will notice. Learning how to correct these errors will make a big difference in your writing.

In the examples in this chapter, subjects are underlined once and verbs are underlined twice.

  1. Fragments
  2. Run-ons: fused sentences
  3. Problems with subject-verb agreement
  4. Problems with verb form and tense