– no passive voice (use active voice)
– no phantom pronouns (make sure your pronouns make sense)
– no misplaced modifiers (make sure your subject is right after your participial phrase)
– “this” rule (do not use “this” without specifying what “this” is)
– don’t put two independent clauses in one sentence without a semicolon (;)
– parallel structure (make sure each side is equal)
– more fun not funner/ bigger not more big
– watch plural vs. single
– watch tense
– watch what part of speech used
– -er comparing two things
– -est for comparing three or more things
– plural of single letter has apostrophe/ group of letters no apostrophe
– write out numbers smaller than ten, anything larger written in numbers
– -’s used for posesion of noun that doesn’t end in “s”
– -s’ used for posesion of noun that ends in “s”
– ”were” used for hypothetical cases, “was” used for current situations
