| 1 |
Comma errors |
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Wrong: America's attention span, is zilch. |
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Correct: America's attention
span is zilch. |
| 2 |
Pronoun errors |
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Wrong: One may
add their friends' screen names to their IM lists. |
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Correct: Users may add their
friends' screen names to their IM lists. |
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Wrong: Her and
my father have been married for 15 years. |
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Correct: She and my father
have been married for 15 years. |
| 3 |
Spelling errors (including homophone errors) |
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Wrong: We
should screen officers before they leave the seen. |
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Correct: We should screen
officers before they leave the scene. |
| 4 |
Wrong-word errors |
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Wrong: The
only antic dote was in the safe beside him. |
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Correct: The only antidote was
in the safe beside him. |
| 5 |
Capitalization
errors |
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Wrong: These
features include caller id, call waiting, and long
distance. |
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Correct: These features
include caller ID, call waiting, and long distance. |
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Wrong:
Religion is Different than Science in many ways. |
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Correct: Religion is different
than science in many ways. |
| 6 |
Missing words |
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Wrong: Six
percent of the people used to help control diarrhea. |
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Correct: Six percent of the
people in one study used medical marijuana to help
control diarrhea. |
| 7 |
Sentence boundary
errors |
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Wrong: Even
less addictive than caffeine and nicotine. |
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Correct: Marijuana is even
less addictive than caffeine and nicotine. |
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Wrong: I do
not think that America's weight problem is something the
government should be concerned about, they have bigger
fish to fry. |
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Correct: I do not think that
America's weight problem is something the government
should be concerned about. They have bigger fish
to fry. |
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Wrong: The
employer is put into the middle of the situation because
one or the other will request a transfer to another
department if the workplace is big enough this may not
be a problem. |
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Correct: The employer is put
into the middle of the situation because one or the
other will request a transfer to another department.
If the workplace is big enough, this may not be a
problem. |
| 8 |
Unnecessary words |
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Wrong: I will
tell you as where that I stand at this point. |
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Correct: I will tell you where
I stand at this point. |
| 9 |
Quotation mark errors |
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Wrong: Clinton
added, "I believe we must respect this profound gift and
resist the temptation to replicate ourselves
(Cole-Turner 113)." |
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Correct: Clinton added, "I
believe we must respect this profound gift and resist
the temptation to replicate ourselves" (qtd. in
Cole-Turner 113). |
| 10 |
Inappropriate tense shifts |
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Wrong: Wallace
set the museum on fire while they are both still in it.
Jarrod tried to stop Wallace, but was unsuccessful. |
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Correct: Wallace set the museum on
fire while they were both still in it. Jarrod
tried to stop Wallace, but was unsuccessful. |
