Dirty Dozen Flashcards
“Prior to the industrial revolution, workers SPENT no time on factories”
Verb tense
V-T
“A horse EATS grass/horses EAT grass”
Subject and verb agreement
S-V
“The CIA recruits ITS spies”
Pronoun antecedent
P-A
The politicians WHO spent money
Relative pronoun agreement
P-R
“Effect/affect”
Wrong word
WW
“He could HAVE been a good king”
Audience appropriate
Aud.
“He ate QUICKLY”
Adverb/adjective error
Adv/Adj
“Going to school, I got
Ran over by a bus”
Dangling modifiers
Mod.
“Coal is a dirty duel this is a fact”
Sentence fragmen/run-on
SF/R-O
“Angrily and boisterously”
Parallelism
Parall.
2 items - better
3 or more items - best
“I like modern poetry more than Shakespeare’s POETRY”
Faulty comparatives
Comp.
Proper use of capitals and quotes
Proper capitalization/quotation
Cap./Quote
