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Basic Grammatical
Requirements for ENG 121 |
Eng 121 students
must demonstrate competency in English grammar.
Sentence errors will reduce
grades throughout the semester and if persistent
prevent a passing final grade. |
Use good grammar & write accurate sentences for everything you
submit
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You are expected to know & use
correctly.......
Parts of Speech (POS)
- nouns
- pronouns
- verbs
- adverbs
- conjunctions
- prepositions
- prepositional phrases (PP)
- interjections
Parts of a Sentence
Clauses
- Main Clauses (MC)
- Dependant Clauses (DC
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You are expected to avoid
these sentence
errors
- Run-On Sentence (RO)
- Comma Spliced Sentences (CSP)
- Subject Verb Agreement (S-V)
- Shifts in Verb Tense (VT)
- Pronoun Errors (PRO)
- Misplaced Modifier (MPM)
- Dangling Modifier (DM)
- Misuse or Missing plurals (PL)
- Sentence that Make No Sense (SS)
- Unnecessary Wordiness (W)
- Punctuation (PCT)
- Comma Misuse (COM)
- Adjective, Adverb confusion (A)
- Articles Misuse (ART)
- Word Choice (WC)
- Inappropriate Person (PERSON)
- Inaccurate or missing Possessives (POSS)
- Syntax Confusion (SYN)
- Using non-words (NSW)
- inappropriate 2nd person (YOU)
- Wordiness (W)
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To learn about grammatical
requirement and how to correct errors
see:
Glossary
codes = these are abbreviations that appear on written work usually
to indicating a sentence error you must address for future writing.
example: RO = run-on sentence) That means you are incorrectly
writing a run-on sentence.Look up the "Code - RO in the Glossary; there will be an
explanation of a run-on sentence, examples, and how to not make the same error again.
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