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sentence fragment
r-o or run run-on sentence
cs comma splice
fs or fus fused sentence
|| construction faulty parallelism
sense? or ? awkward or muddled construction or sentence does not make sense
s/v agr or agr subject/verb agreement error
verb? or v incorrect verb form
ST or tense? tense shifts
pron ref or what? (next to the circled pronoun) vague or unclear pronoun reference
p/a agr or agr pronoun/antecedent agreement error, often the result of sexist usage
dang or mm dangling or misplaced modifier
adv need adverb form
sp above word or word underlined or both spelling error
ww or word underlined or both wrong word
apos or apostrophe inserted or crossed out apostrophe error
punctuation mark inserted, sometimes using a carrot, or crossed out punctuation error

 


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