Written communication that is free from mistakes shows how good you are as a communicator. Following on from Sentence Mini Course Part 1, here are some more common mistakes in Sentences you’ll need to look out for.
The subject of a sentence is the source of several mistakes. Don’t repeat the subject, Single subject, single verb and Help difficult subjects agree with their verbs look at the three most common.
If you write a sentence with several items in it, the Items on a list must match.
The correct position of modifiers in a sentence is looked at in the pages Modifiers go next to the thing they modify and Agreeing with positive and negative sentences.
Agreeing with negative sentences is looked at in Agreeing with positive and negative sentences and Agreeing with a negative. Negatives in sentences is looked at over two pages in Don’t use double negatives and Use of nor in negative sentences.
Three pages looking at question sentences: Word order in questions, In indirect questions the subject comes before the verb and No auxiliary verb in reported questions complete this sentence mini course.
