Grammar and Mechanics

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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Capitalization

Punctuation—comma use, semicolon and colon use

Quotation Markspunctuating titles

Plural Nouns

Apostrophes

Parts of Speech

Subjects and Predicates

Subject and Predicate Agreement

Objects—direct and indirect objects, object of the preposition

Pronoun Case

Sentence Fragments

Fused Sentences, Run-ons, and Comma Splices

Parallel Structure

Avoiding Common Words