| ERROR | SAMPLE SENTENCE | Abbrs |
| Fragment | Running through the woods. | FRAG |
| Run-on | I went to see my grandmother, she was in bed. | RO |
| Combine | I saw my grandmother in bed. She looked like a wolf. | COMB |
| Verb Error | ||
| Tense | Jimmy finishes his homework and takes a nap. | |
| Passive | Ana was taken by limo. | |
| SV Agreement | Jimmy and Susan finishes their homework. | |
| Pronoun Case Error | Me and Timmy went to Ellis Island. | PRON |
| Pronoun Agreement Error | Someone forgot then ferry ticket. | |
| Ambiguous Pronoun | Jimmy and Nick jumped ship. He drowned. | |
| Capitalization | Umpleby hall faces north Woodland street. | CAP |
| Punctuation | P | |
| Comma | Umpleby Hall has three stories but it is not of great architectural interest. | |
| Zack was studying Latin French and German. | ||
| When Jim went to gym, he became confused about his name. | ||
| Silo a leader in the farm storage industry combusted spontaneously. | ||
| Quotations | Wily Coyote said "I think I smell a rat" | |
| Apostrophe | Wilys nose betrayed him. | |
| Semicolon | I went to see my grandmother, she was in bed. | |
| Colon | I asked my fairy godmother for the following, a spellchecker, a tutor, and an idea. | |
| Wrong Word | WW | |
| Homonyms | Their always forgetting there books. | |
| Confused Words | All my friends excepted the present accept Geoffrey Gift. | |
| Diction | The protagonist of the novel is one cool dude. | |
| Awkward | 1 stumbled, albeit later in the afternoon awkwardly, over the sill, stupidly. | AWK |
| Wordy | I sincerely believe in my humble opinion that what's right is good. | WDY |
| Redundant | The reason to go to the costume ball is because your face is like a mask. | |
| Spelling | The teacher is on the recieving end of a lot of mispellings. | SP |