MOST COMMON

GRAMMATICAL ERRORS

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Commas•Listing comma•Joining comma•Gapping comma•Bracketing comma•Interjecting comma•Speech comma

http://www.jprof.com/writing/rulesforusingcommas.html

Listing (Oxford) Comma

A listing comma can always be replaced by the word and or or.http://iroirodori.blogspot.com/2012/01/oxford-comma.html

Joining Comma

A joining comma must be followed by one of the connecting words and, or, but, yet or while.

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-use-commas

Gapping CommaA gapping comma indicates that you have decided not to repeat some words which have already occurred in the sentence.

“Italy is famous for

her composers and

musicians, France for

her chefs and

philosophers, and

Poland for her

mathematicians and

logicians.”

Bracketing CommaBracketing commas always come in pairs and they always set off a weak interruption which could in principle be removed from the sentence.

Interjecting Comma

This is the comma to indicate a pause in the sentence.

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/punctuation-saves-lives/

Speech Comma

Before you use quotation marks, you should insert a comma

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Wrong Word

•its/it’s•your/you’re•their/there/they’re•who’s/whose•than/then

it’s its

is a contraction for it is or it has

indicates possession

Your:

describes possession. In other words, you own something.

You’re: is a contraction of “you are”

your/ you’re

then/thanThen is used for time as in to show the order in which you did a series of events.

Than is used in comparison to show the quality of an items or person versus another item or person.

their/there/they’re

Their: is possessive meaning it owns something.

There: refers to a place or idea.

They’re: is a contraction of “they are”

who’s/ whose

Who’s is a contraction of “who is”

Whose poses the question of possession

Capitalization

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/Grammar-Capitalization-Rules.html

15 rules of capitalization

Rule Number EightAlways capitalize the first and last words of titles of publications regardless of their parts of speech. Capitalize other words within titles, including the short verb forms Is, Are, and Be.http://www.goodexperience.com/tib/archives/2006/02/dummies_book_ti.htmlhttp://damnwonderfulworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/12-strange-book-tittle.html

Rule Number Eleven

Do not capitalize names of seasons.

http://seasonswithpurpose.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html

Rule Number Twelve

Capitalize the first word of a salutation and the first word of a complimentary close.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/81328571/Chrysanthemum-Letter-Home-Ms-Dyer-Website

Misspelled Words

http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/2011/02/15-most misspelled-words/

Lose/Loose

Opposite of win

Opposite of tight

http://typingwithfakenails.blogspot.com/2011/10/dominican-profile-of-week-juan-bosch.htmlhttp://janinvuosi.co.cc/about.html

alot/a lot

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

definitely/ definitly

http://greenlagirl.com/clicklist-definitely-the-american-dream/

THERE IS

NO “A” IN

DEFINITELY

!

Information from…•http://www.copyblogger.com/5-common-mistakes-that-make-you-look-dumb/

•http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node14.html

•http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/capital.asp

•http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling