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Quick Start Guide to Pronoun Agreement.

This guide will explain:

Singular and plural nouns
Noun-pronoun agreement

Modifiers play an important role in explaining how all the words and phrases in a sentence are related to each other. So, a dangling or misplaced modifier can make your sentence look awkward or confusing. After this lesson, you will be able to identify a faulty modifier and thereby correct it.

Commas are a powerful but potentially difficult punctuation mark to use correctly. This guide will cover seven rules for English comma use to help improve your writing.

Often when writing, we need to add further clarification about a noun beyond simply using the noun itself. This qualifying information can either provide new information about the noun or cause the noun to refer to a more specific person, place, or thing

Case is an important thing for any budding grammarian to understand. This guide will explain: What case means | How to tell what is subjective case, objective case, and possessive case

Welcome! Welcome to the Learning Commons Quick Start Guide on subject-verb agreement! Although subject-verb agreement is a critical part of using proper grammar and writing correct English, it can be …

Welcome! Welcome to the Learning Commons Quick Start Guide on run-on sentences! Run-on sentences are commonly found in inexperienced academic writing. They seem to make a given paper appear more …

Welcome! Welcome to the Learning Commons Quick Start Guide on how to avoid sentence fragments! While an easy mistake to make, sentence fragments can harm reading comprehension and make your …