COMMON CORRECTION SYMBOLS

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COMMON CORRECTION SYMBOLS

• Examples from Anguished English

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P punctuation/capitalization error

• Ancient egyptians wrote in hydraulics and
  traveled by Camelot.
• Socrates, a famous Greek teacher died from an
  overdose of wedlock.

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T tense

• In Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped,
  hurled biscuits, and throwed java.
• History called people Romans because they never
  stayed in one place for very long.

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pv passive voice

• Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at
  Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences.
• The Bible was invented by Gutenberg.

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RO run-on sentence

• Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was
  Miguel Cervantes, he wrote Donkey Hote.
• The greatest Renaissance writer was Shakespeare,
  he lived at Windsor with his merry wives.

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F fragment

• An example of a heroic couplet, Romeo and Juliet.
• And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with
  a one- hundred foot clipper.

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gr grammar error

• One of the causes of the Revolutionary War is
  that the English pored taxes on tea.
• All of the Delegates from the original thirteen
  states is part of the Contented Congress.

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WC word choice

• In the Middle Ages, most people were alliterate.
• During this time, people put on plays about
  ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical
  creatures.

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WW wrong word

• The government of England was a limited mockery.
• Henry VIII walked with difficulty because he has
  an abbess on his knee.

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unc unclear

• As a baboon who grew up in the wild, I realized
  that Wiki had special nutritional needs.
• In 1979, he bought majority control of the
  companys stock, along with his mother.

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unc unclear reference
Grandmother of eight makes hole in one.
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unc ref unclear reference
Although her mother was in it, thieves stole a
suitcase containing jewelry and clothing from the
car of Vanya Koskis yesterday.
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omission of words

• The other car collided with mine without giving
  warning of intentions.
• My car was legally parked when I backed into
  other vehicle.

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ll parallelism

• The Superstore is unequaled in size, unmatched in
  variety, and has no rival in convenience.
• They not only wanted to go shopping but also to
  see a movie.

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paragraphing error

• Have you watered the elephants yet? Willis
  asked innocently. Not yet! replied the
  hassled zookeeper.

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