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Homophones 4.1
Affect effect,
Accept except,
It s it s
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Reginal Spelling Differences 4.2
Us color,
Us behavior,
Us flavor
36
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Letter Addition And Omission 4.3
Misspelled or mispelled,
Embarrass or embarass,
Aparent or apparent
17
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Compound Words 4.6
Open compounds,
Hyphenated compounds,
Closed compounds
17
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Faulty Agreement 5.1
Faulty agreement,
Two types of faulty agreement,
Subject and verb agreement
17
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Faulty Parallelism 5.2
Faulty parallelism,
Subjunctive mood,
Subjunctive mood rules
7
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Fragments And Modifying Clauses 5.3
What is a relative clause,
What are the types of relative cl...,
What is a restrictive relative cl...
8
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Adverbs And Adjectives 5.4
Adjectives with sense verbs,
Non ly adverbs top tip,
What are adjectives
20
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Determiners, Prepostiins And Pronouns 5.5
Determiners,
Types of determiners,
Definite article
30
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Reginal Grammar Differences 5.6
Verb agreement and collective nouns,
Present perfect tense,
Simple past
32
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Grammar Myths And Common Questions 5.7
Never split infinitives myth,
Never start a sentence with a con...,
Never end sentences with a prepos...
4
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Terminal Pumctuation 6.1
The correct use of periods confus...,
Punctuation marks include periods...,
Comma splice
5
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Commas 6.2
Nonrestrictive clauses,
Restrictive clauses,
Such as and commas
23
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Colons And Semi Colons 6.3
Semicolon,
Colons,
How to use colons in sentences
13
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Apostrophes 6.4
Apostrophes,
Possessive apostrophes,
Apostrophes and words ending in s
10
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Quotation Marks 6.5
Single or double quotation marks,
Punctuation and quotation marks,
Punctuating dialogue in quotations
10
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Hyphens, En Dashes, And Em Dashes 6.6
Hyphen en dash em dash differences,
Hyphens,
Hyphens with prefixes
13
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Ellipses, Parentheses, And Lists 6.7
Ellipses uses,
Ellipses omitted text uses,
Parentheses punctuation
8
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Latin Terms 7.1
What are the most common latin te...,
Eg,
Eg uses
17
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Acronyms, Intitialisms, And Abbreviations 7.2
Acronyms,
Initialisms,
Introducing acronyms and initialisms
12
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Number Use 7.3
To write the word for a number or...,
Writing decimals,
Writing percentages
18
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Capitalization, Other Issues, And Common Questions 7.4
Capitalization and specific or ge...,
Capitalization and job roles qual...,
Capitalization and common nouns b...
19
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Introduction To Style 8.1
Proofreading and style,
Editing and style,
Style of academic writing
19
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Tone And Formality 8.2
Formal english style,
Informal style,
Audience tone
9
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Vocabulary 8.3
Inappropriate vocabulary,
Editing technical language,
Weak language
14
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Sentence Stricture And Length 8.4
Wordiness,
Repetition,
Redundancy
16
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Paragraph Structure And Common Questions 8.5
Paragraph structure,
Topic sentences
2
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Imtroduction To Academic Proofreading And Commenting 9.1
Academic writing,
Proofreaders role in academic wri...,
Avoiding plagiarism
7
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Academic Language 9.2
First duty as an academic proofre...,
Misuse complex language in academ...,
Unique to field or coined complex...
8
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Proofreading Quotations 9.3
Introducing quotes,
Entire sentence after a partial s...,
Quote after a complete sentence p...
10
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Writing Style 9.4
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Types Of Academic Documents 9.5
Student essays,
Editing student essays,
Descriptive essays
16
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