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2. LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES: c) WRITING

i) HELP WITH LANGUAGE LANGUAGE PROBLEMS

 

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Hit Parade of Language Errors - University of Toronto
  • lack of agreement
  • sentence fragments
  • overly-long sentences
  • overuse of passive voice
  • faulty parallelism
  • vague pronouns
  • dangling modifiers

  • squinting modifiers

  • mixed or dead metaphors
  • faulty word choice
  • wordiness
  • comma splices
  • misuse of comma, semicolon, colon

Grammar: Teaching & Exercises for ESL writers - OWL at Purdue University
 Scroll down the page to find:
  • grammar teaching on common problem items
  • exercises with answers
 

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling: Teaching & Exercises for all writers - OWL at Purdue University
  • handouts
  • teaching
  • exercises with answers

 

Proofreading - guidelines

Proofreading Writing

CELTE University of Warwick

  • guidelines
  • activity
Using Computers to correct written work

James Thomas
  • tools and useful advice



 

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