GRAMMAR RULES

Clear grammar rules, examples, and fixes.

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COMMON PROBLEMS

A comma splice happens when two complete sentences are joined with only a comma.

A run-on sentence incorrectly combines complete thoughts without enough punctuation or connection.

In most everyday writing, affect is a verb meaning to influence, while effect is a noun meaning a result.

“It's” is a contraction for “it is” or “it has.” “Its” is the possessive form of “it.”

There, their, and they're sound alike but have different jobs in a sentence.

Passive voice makes the receiver of an action the grammatical focus instead of the person or thing performing the action.

A dangling modifier does not clearly attach to the word or person it is supposed to describe.

A verb should agree in number with its grammatical subject.

Apostrophes most often mark possession or omitted letters in contractions; they usually do not make ordinary nouns plural.

A sentence fragment is an incomplete group of words presented as if it were a full sentence.

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