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Professor: David T. Courtwright
Institution: University of North Florida
Date: Fall 1995
Listing: AMH 3544/HIS 5934
Common Errors in Writing
- Each pronoun should agree with their antecedent.
- Each pronoun should agree with its antecedent.
- Between you and I, case is important.
- Between you and me, case is important.
- Verbs has to agree with their subject.
- Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
- Do not be a person whom confuses "who" and "whom."
- Do not be a person who confuses "who" and "whom."
- Never use no double negative.
- Never use a double negative.
- A writer must not shift your point of view.
- A writer must not shift his or her point of view.
- When writing, participles must not be dangled.
- When you are writing, do not leave participles dangling.
- In formal writing, one shouldn't use contractions.
- In formal writing one should not use contractions.
- Do not write run-on sentences you got to punctuate them.
- Do not write run-on sentences. You must punctuate them.
- About sentence fragments.
- A sentence must have a subject and verb to be complete. Otherwise it is only a fragment.
- In letters themes reports and stuff like that use commas to separate items in a series.
- In letters, themes, reports, and other written work use commas to separate items in a series.
- Do not use commas, that are not necessary.
- Do not use commas that are not necessary.
- Its important to use apostrophe's in the right places.
- It's important to use apostrophes in the right places.
- Do not abbrev. or use etc.
- Do not abbreviate or use et cetera.
- Check to see if you any words out.
- Check to see if you left any words out.
- Be careful to never split infinitives.
- Be careful never to split infinitives.
- Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. That is a practice up with your reader will not put.
- Never use a preposition to end a sentence. Your reader will not put up with that practice.
- Parallel structure will help you in writing more effective sentences and to express yourself more gracefully.
- Parallel structure will help you write more effective sentences and express yourself more gracefully.
- In my personal opinion I think that an author when he or she is writing should not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words that he or she does not really need to use.
- An author should not be wordy.
- Modern day writers hypehnate compound adjectives, as when they refer tonineteenth century history.
- Modern-day writers hyphenate compound adjectives, as when they refer tonineteenth-century history.
- "The Chicago Manual of Style" says to underline book titles and put article titles in quotation marks.
- The Chicago Manual of Style says to underline book titles and put article titles in quotation marks.
- Last but not least, lay off clichés and mixed metaphors. They might kindle a flood of anger in your reader.
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