G: Grammatical Sentences

GGrammatical Sentences

GGrammatical Sentences

G1 Subject-verb agreement

love or loves? have or has?do or does? is or are?

a Standard subject-verb combinations
b Words between subject and verb
c Subjects with and
d Subjects with or, nor
e Indefinite pronouns such as someone, each
f Collective nouns such as jury, class
g Subject after verb
h Subject complement
i who, which, that
j Plural form, singular meaning
k Titles, company names, words as words, gerund phrases
G2 Verb forms, tenses, and moods
a Irregular verbs
b lie and lay
c -s endings
d -ed endings
e Omitted verbs
f Tense
g Subjunctive mood
G3 Pronouns
a Pronoun-antecedent agreement
b Pronoun reference
c Pronoun case (I vs. me etc)
d who and whom
G4 Adjective and adverbs
a Adjectives
b Adverbs
c good and well; bad and badly
d Comparatives and superlatives
e Double negatives
G5 Sentence fragments
a Subordinate clauses
b Phrases
c Other word groups
d Acceptable fragments
G6 Run-on sentences
a Revision with coordinating conjunction
b Revision with semicolon
c Revision by separating sentences
d Revision by restructuring