Common Grammatical Errors
Here is a list of some of the more commonly committed grammatical errors.
You may click on any of these errors to view an example of each as well
as a discussion of the grammatical rule in question
- Adjective/Adverb Errors
- Apostrophe Misuse
- Article Errors
- Awkward Phrasing or Idiom
- Capitalization Errors
- Comma Omissions
- Comma Splice
- Contractions
- Double Negatives
- Failure to use Possessive before a Gerund
- Faulty Coordination
- Fragments
- Fused or Run-On Sentence
- Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers
- Misused Semicolons
- Mixed Construction
- Parallelism
- Past Tense Errors
- Plurality Errors-Nouns
- Pronoun Case Errors
- Pronoun Errors-- Ambiguous, Redundant, etc.
- Pronoun Reference
- Shifts in Person or Number
- Shifts In Tense
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Unnecessary Commas
- Verb Errors (wrong form)
The content of these pages was, in part, taken from the following sources:
Harbrace College Handbook (Revised Thirteenth Edition), Horner, Webb,
and Miller. Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Digital Design, M. Morris Mano. Prentice Hall, 1984.
Physics: Principles and Problems, Zitzewitz and Neff. McGraw-Hill, 1995.
