| What we fix when we proofread | |
| ♦ grammar ♦ typographical errors ♦ misspellings ♦ punctuation ♦ comma splices ♦ sentence fragments ♦ run-on sentences ♦ subject-verb agreement ♦ verb tense ♦ double negatives ♦ sequence of words ♦ incorrect prepositions ♦ adjective and adverb use ♦ noun strings ♦ countable and uncountable nouns ♦ preposition at the end of a sentence ♦ pronoun-antecedent agreement ♦ pronoun case agreement ♦ agreement errors ♦ beginning a sentence with a conjunction ♦ comparison of absolute adjectives ♦ countable and uncountable quantifiers ♦ dangling modifiers ♦ duplicate pronouns ♦ faulty parallelisms ♦ gerund/infinitive use ♦ incomplete comparisons ♦ infinitives without ‘to’ ♦ limiting modifiers | ♦ misuse of ‘like’ and ‘as’ ♦ misuse of ‘much’ ♦ misuse of quantifiers ♦ misuse of subordinate clauses ♦ misuse of ‘these’ and ‘those’ ♦ missing question marks ♦ modal verb use errors ♦ redundant pairs of words ♦ sequence of tense ♦ squinting modifiers ♦ unbalanced or misplaced punctuation ♦ unnecessary infinitive clauses ♦ use of articles ♦ use of ‘other’ and ‘another’ ♦ use of subjunctive ♦ vague pronoun references ♦ verb form usePunctuation Proofreading Examples ♦ comma splices ♦ commas after introductory clauses ♦ proper end-of-sentence punctuation ♦ semicolon use ♦ misplaced punctuation ♦ unbalanced |
