GRAMMAR, STYLE,
& MECHANICS
PART I:
PARTS of SPEECH
PART II:
COMMON ERRORS
PART III:
MECHANICS/USAGE
NOUNS
PRONOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
PREPOSITIONS
CONJUNCTIONS
INTERJECTIONS
AGREEMENT ERRORS
:
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun Agreement
Pronoun Reference
SENTENCE ERRORS
:
Fragments
Run-Ons
Comma Splices
SPELLING
:
Tips
Tricky Words
Rules
Limits of Spell Checker
Spell Checker Poem
Commonly Misspelled Words
Limits of SCs
COMMON ERRORS
:
Homophones
Troublesome Pairs
Pronoun Errors
Stylistic Errors
House of Style
Clichés
Too-Common Errors
Dr. H's Prescription for Academic Writing
Diction
ELEMENTS of STYLE:
Misused Words
Parallelism
PUNCTUATION
:
Commas
Dr. H's 4
Semicolons
Apostrophes
Colons
Hyphens & Dashes
Ellipses
Quotation Marks
Quotation Marks VS. Underlining
Italics
Brackets
CAPITALIZATION:
Rule #1
Rule #2
Rule #3
TECH TERMS:
Common Terms
Web Words
Acronyms