- English 362: Editing & Ethics
- Dr. Terry Lee
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- Study Guide for Grammar / Language Control Test
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- Use the Associated Press Stylebook, with its punctuation guide, as well as a good writing and grammar handbook to study. For common misspellings, consult the list linked below:
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- • Active voice
- • Passive voice
- • comma use
- • apostrophe use
- • possessives / plurals
- • transitive / intransitive verbs
- • semi-colon, colon, dash, period
- • essential, non-essential modifiers (a.k.a., restrictive, non-restrictive modifiers
- • compound adjectives, compound modifiers
- • use of a, an (esp. in AP Stylebook)
- • titles (esp. in AP Stylebook, under several headings)
- • numerals (esp. in AP Stylebook)
- • dangling modifiers, misplaced modifiers
- • conjunctive adverbs
- • subordinating conjunctions
- • who, whom
- • lie, lay
- • personal / impersonal relative pronouns (who, whom / that, which)
- • subjunctive voice
- • dilatory (expletive) sentence structure: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_expletive.html
- • its, it's
- • bloated words & phrases to avoid (Ellis 245-254)
- • commonly misspelled words:http://www.briannorris.com/articles/misspelledwords.html
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