Top 14 Most Common Grammar Mistakes in English Essay Writing

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Top 14 Most Common Grammar Mistakes in English Essay Writing 

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Spelling mistakes Students often use incorrect homophones (words with the same pronunciation but different in meaning, such as “your” and “you’re”) in a sentence. Automated spell-check may not help, because misused words are spelled correctly!

Subject-verb agreement This is the most common and frustrating mistake ever. Remember, you must use a singular verb with the singular subject, and a plural verb is used with the plural subject.

No comma after an introductory phrase Students love using introductory phrases when writing complex essays; however, they often forget that introductory phrases should be followed by a comma.

Comma splicing A comma splice occurs, when you use a comma to join two independent clauses.

Run-on sentences Another frustrating mistake is the absence of a coordinating conjunction, which connects two clauses that could be used as separate sentences. You should always use a comma before the conjunction unless the clauses are short and closely related.

Sentence fregments As per Dictionary.com – “Sentence fragments is a phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English”

Wordiness This is probably the most frustrating mistake students make. Wordiness makes writing unclear and confusing. Here is an example of a wordy sentence:

Comma misuse and a compound subject

A compound subject is two or more noun phrases connected by a conjunction to form a single, longer noun phrase. Students always have a lot of troubles with the proper usage of commas with the compound subject.

No Commas around interrupters Interrupters are phrases that break the flow of a sentence to show additional details such as emotion, tone or emphasis.

An interrupter should always have commas around.

Squinting modifiers A squinting modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that could modify the word before it or the word after it. A squinting modifier is a type of misplaced modifier.

Adjective/adverb confusion Students often misuse adjectives and adverbs, since these parts of speech can be easily confused. When should one use “badly” or “bad”, “slowly” or “slow”? Here is a quick tip for you: the adjective is used with a noun or pronoun; adverb is used with a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.

Pronoun Confusion The easiest way to identify whether to use I or me in a sentence is dropping the word “you”.

Double negative Putting two negatives in a row is never a good idea because two negatives turn a sentence into a positive one.

Dangling construction This mistake is not just frustrating, but embarrassing. A dangling construction is a phrase that is intended to be a modifier for a noun or phrase which is not in the sentence, but instead, it gives an unintended erroneous description to a noun or phrase in the sentence.

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