16 Rules Of Grammar Flashcards

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Rule 2

Subject verb agreement

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Verb before subject - inverted word order:

1) “there” phrases e.g. There are/there is
2) Shakespeare syntax - strange word order

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Rule 1

Subject-verb agreement

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Subject and verb are separated due to:

1) Modifying clause
2) Prepositional phrases

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Rule 3

Subject-verb agreement

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Subject seems plural:

1) Either…or… / Neither…nor… constructions
2) Prepositional phrases

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Rule 4

Simple past vs. participle

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1) Participle without auxiliary

2) Replacement of participle with simple past

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Rule 5

Infinitive vs. gerund

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Idiomatic

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Rule 6

Wrong verb tense

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1) Time references

2) Other verbs

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Rule 7

Wrong preposition

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1) Idiomatic - refer to flash cards of list of recurring phrases

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Rule 8

Wrong word

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1) Homophones

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Rule 9

Adjective vs adverb

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1) Adjective/adverb substitution

2) Comparative vs. superlative

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Rule 10

Double negative

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1) Obvious negatives

2) Less obvious negatives e.g. Hardly, scarcely, without

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Rule 11

Parallelism

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1) Faulty comparisons - illogical/ grammatically inconsistent comparisons
2) Faulty lists - grammatical inconsistencies

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Rule 12

Noun number agreement

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1) Logical number relations - nouns must agree in number

2) Countable vs. uncountable nouns - see list

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Rule 13

Pronoun number

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1) Consistency between subject and pronoun used

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Rule 14

Pronoun case

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1) Wrong case in compound noun phrases (2 nouns in a phrase)

2) Case confusion with relative pronouns (who,whom,when,where…)

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Rule 15

Pronoun shift

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1) Shift in viewpoint e.g. Switching from first-person to second-person
2) Shift in number - singular/plural pronouns

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Rule 16

Pronoun with ambiguous reference

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1) Multiple antecedents - more than one noun to refer to

2) Missing antecedents - pronoun with no subject