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Bookhooks Style Guide Using our Word template, you can annotate student work, adding comments for the 30 Common Errors listed in this style guide. The template facilitates mark up by teachers, and generates comments with links to these resource pages!
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30 Common Writing Errors
and Their Solutions
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Look, Ma, Im dancing! [Direct address]
Well, your cause is, as you must know, lost. [Interjection, transition]
He died on May 1, 1953, at 99 Duke St., Weston, Idaho. [Year, place]
My finest professor, i.e., Rex Mundis, Ph.D., retired. [Abbreviations]
Moby Dick, Melvilles great novel, met mixed reviews. [Appositive]
The novel Moby Dick met mixed reviews. [Restrictive appositive]
Every senator who voted yea was reelected. [Restrictive clause]
Senator Bob, who voted yea, was reelected. [Nonrestrictive] |
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