13 Grammar rules
Rule #6: Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives describe nouns, they will always make grammatical sense in the phrase Adverbs describes verbs and adjectives. Usually end in -ily. They will always make grammatical sense in the sentence
Rule #12: Commonly Messed-up Expressions
Become familiar with standard, formal English and being able to hear or see which words or phrases are correct and which are not
Rule #7: Parallel Construction
Ideas that are parallel (related) should ne expressed in the same way
Rule #13: Logical Comparison
Make sure that when you make a comparison, you compare 2 like things
Rule #5: Correct Tense
Make sure the time of an action is consistent Key words: when, while, as, after and so forth
Rule #3: Pronoun Subjects and Objects
Pronouns: (Subjects: I, he, the, they, we, who) (Objects: me, him, her, them, us, whom)
Rule #9: Totally Bogus Sight Question
Read carefully for missing words or letters
Rule #8: Run-on Sentences and Sentence Fragments
Run-on sentence is usually 2 complete sentences that are incorrectly joined by a comma instead of separated by a period or a semicolon
Rule #11: Sentence Logic
Sentences that are grammatically correct, but don´t do a good job of saying what the writer wants them to say.
Rule #2: Nouns-Pronoun agreement
Singular subjects take singular pronouns;plural subjects take plural pronouns List of singular pronouns: each, every, either, neither, one, no one, everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody and nobody Pronouns that can go either way:SANAM: some, any, none, all and most
Rule #1: Subject-verb agreement
Subjects and verbs must agree in number, so isolate the subject and the verb and make sure they match Expression similar to "as well": in addition to; along which and together with Singular subjects: each, every, either, one, no one, everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody and nobody
Rule #4: Pronoun consistency
When ONE starts with a particular pronoun, ONE should continue to use that pronoun, or a pronoun that is consistent with it, throughout ONE´s hole sentence
Rule #10: Dangling Modifiers
Whenever you see a sentence with an -ing word in a phrase in the beginning, be on th look for a dangling modifier.