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English Review: Problems with Pronouns
Overview Pronouns often cause trouble, and incorrect pronouns can be caught and corrected when editing an essay. They may be part of a compound subject or object. The pronoun reference may be unclear,...
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English Review: Verbs
Overview Verbs carry the action in sentences. Sometimes, however, it is difficult to choose the correct form of the verb to use when number, order, and tense are in question. Some strategies for...
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English Review: Modifiers
Overview Modifiers are words, such as adjectives or adverbs, or phrases, such as prepositional phrases, that add description to other words in a sentence. Check to see if they are used in the correct...
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English Review: Spelling
Overview Spelling errors are some of the most common types of errors to find when editing an essay. Some words are often misspelled, while other words are commonly confused. Strategies to fix spelling...
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English Review of Building Vocabulary
Overview It is very important to have a good vocabulary in order to do the amount and type of reading required in high school and college. Some strategies for building vocabulary include understanding...
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English Review of Types of Text
Overview Students read and study different types of text, including expository text, persuasive text, expressive text, and literary text. Different types of text have different purposes, and...
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English Review of Types of Sentences
Overview Varying the types of sentences used within paragraphs can lead to effective writing. Some types of sentences include the simple sentence, the compound sentence, the complex sentence, and the...
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English Review of Kinds of Sentence Fragments
Overview Sentence fragments are writing errors in which a part of a sentence is punctuated as a complete sentence, with a capital letter at the beginning and closing punctuation at the end. However, a...
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English Review of Pronoun Errors
Overview Some common types of pronoun errors include pronoun agreement, pronoun ambiguity, pronoun shifts, and pronoun case. Those errors affect clarity of expression. Pronoun Agreement Pronouns should...
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English Review of Comma Errors
Overview Commas separate parts of a sentence grammatically, as well as separate items in a series. Without commas separating clauses, some of the meaning can be changed or lost. Commas in Series Use...
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English Review of Eliminating Wordiness
Overview Wordiness errors obscure the writer’s message under unnecessary verbiage, such as redundant words or phrases, passive voice, weak “to be” verb forms, and unnecessary expressions. Close reading...
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English Review of Abstract and Concrete Language
Overview Writers can make essays more vivid by providing specific, concrete examples for abstract concepts and language. Effective writing requires a balance between the two. Abstract concepts without...
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English Review of Point of View
Overview Writers use different points of view in essays or stories in order to present and reveal information to their readers. They may choose first-person, second-person, or two types of third-person...
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English Review of Rhetorical Patterns
Overview Writers can use particular types of rhetorical patterns to create personal essays, such as narration, description, how-to, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, classification and...
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English Review of Types of Poetry
Overview Some of the major types of poetry include narrative poetry, lyric poetry, and prose poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story, while lyric poetry creates a mood. Prose poetry also expresses...
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English Review of Plot
Overview Plot is essential to any story. The sequence of events within the story are linked by cause and effect to produce a desired outcome, and keep readers engaged. Plots tend to follow a structure...
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English Review of Ways to Build Vocabulary
Overview Building a good vocabulary is an important part of success in English. It helps students to more easily understand what is read, as well as having more words to choose from when writing an...
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English Review of Writing the Admissions Essay
Overview Many selective colleges and universities ask prospective students to write an essay as part of their application for admissions. Usually, there are guidelines, such as word length, a...
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English Review of Finding a Place to Write
Overview One way to build good writing and studying habits is to find a good place to write and do homework. Not all writing and homework can be done at school, so it is important to find a place...
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English Review of Plurals
Overview In order to form a plural noun from a singular noun, grammatical rules are followed. The way the plural is formed often depends on the way the singular noun is spelled, whether it ends in a...
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