Checklist: Editing the Verbs in Your Writing

CHECKLIST

Editing the Verbs in Your Writing

  • Check verb endings that cause you trouble. (23a)
  • Double-check forms of lie and lay, sit and set, rise and raise. (23b)
  • Refer to action in a literary work in the present tense. (23c)
  • Check that verb tenses in your writing express meaning accurately. (23c and 23d)
  • Use passive voice appropriately. (23e)