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BASIC GRAMMAR USAGE ERRORS

MIDDLE SCHOOL - GRADES 6-8


 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
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