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Technical Communication Today by Richard JohnsonSheehan Exam Preparation Materials | Fully Updated Solutions comma splice - answer - two complete sentences incorrectly joined together with a comma run-on sentence - answer - two or more sentences crammed into one fragment - answer - a word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence dangling modifier - answer - phrase does not properly explain the subject subject-verb disagreement - answer - subject of the sentence does not match the verb (singular matches singular; plural matches plural pronoun-antecedent disagreement - answer - writer forgets whether the subject is singular or plural or switch tense faulty parallelism - answer - lists - orderly construction of a sentence keeps parallel ideas in the same grammatical form, ideas in a series should be in the same grammatical form, even when the series consists of only two items, parallel ideas should be in the same grammatical form, parallel ideas are often signaled by pairs of words like either/or, neither/nor, etc. pronoun case error - answer - Ex: Her loves him is WRONG. She loves him is CORRECT. shifted tense - answer - neighboring sentences should reflect the same tense vague pronoun - answer - A pronoun with an antecedent that is not clear. period - answer - end of standard sentence; also abbreviations and numbers exclamation point - answer - surprise or strong feelings question mark - answer - asking a question; or a series of questions Punctuation with quotation marks - answer - punctuation goes inside quotation marks; except if the full line including outside of the quotes is a question semi-colon or colon - answer - partial stop. join independent clauses. the second of which aids the first. lesser=semi. equal=colon or signal list. semi-colons and colons and quotation marks - answer - appear outside of quotation marks em dash (the long one) - answer - asides from the author en dash (shorter) - answer - numbers & dates hyphen - answer - prefixes and compound words parenthesis - answer - additional information, clarify a list (1) brackets - answer - editorial comments, replace a pronoun ellipses - answer - Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted or a thought is trailing off simple tense - answer - past, present, future progressive - answer - was, is, or will be in progress perfect - answer - was, is, or will be completed perfect progressive - answer - was, is, or, will be progressing until a specific point APA - answer - common to natural and human sciences (in-text citations & alphabetized references) author year in-text & for multiple; et al; corporation or title if no author; for multiple works same sentence CSE - answer - superscript MLA - answer - author-page number; two authors and; et al; for multiple sources
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