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Error ID – sentence w/ 4 underlined words/phrases with mistakes
- Sentence structure problem
1) Independent clauses (clauses that can be sentences themselves)
Can be joined ma + conjunction, or semicolon
Comma splice problem: independent clauses joined with ONLY ma are wrong
Run-on sentence problem: independent clauses joined with nothing, wrong
2) Subordinate/dependent clauses (clauses that needs to latch onto an independent clause, . “Sam is very dirty and needs a bath”– independence clause = Sam is very dirty, dependent clause = needs a bath, conjunction = and)
- often at the beginning/end of a sentence
- test for independent clauses: remove dependent clause, still makes sense
- Sentence fragment problem: several dependent clauses w/ no independent clause
- Verb problem
1) all verbs should have the same form (to eat/to run, became/attended)
- Nouns describing a group of people (audience, family, USA) are singular
- Either, neither, none, each, anyone, no one, everyone are all singular
- Subjects joined by and are plural (X and Y are)
- Nouns joined by or can be either singular or plural, depending on the last noun given (Jane or John is, Jane or the girls are)
2) proper tense
- Verb tense does not change within a sentence (“In colonial times…did not…knew)
- Noun problem
1) Subject-verb agreement
- Pronoun problem (pronoun = word used to