For examples of these errors, click on the Grammar Handbook.

(Using The Brief English Handbook, Fifth Edition)

6 Sentence fragments

7 Comma splices, run-on sentences

8 Verb agreement

Especially: 8a (intervening words between subject/verb)

8c/8d (use of "or" and "nor")

8e ("everybody....is")

9 Pronoun agreement, especially 9e ("no one....his")

10 Pronoun case, especially 10h (who/whom)

11 Verb forms

13 Passive voice (avoid overusing)

15 Reminders for ESL writers

17h Dangling modifiers

18 Pronoun reference

20a Incomplete comparisons

21 Parallel constructions

23 Commas

Especially: 23a (compound sentences with coordinating conjunctions)

23d (to set off conjunctive adverbs)

24 Unnecessary commas

25 Semicolons

Especially: 25a (compound sentences without coordinating conjunctions)

25b (compound sentences with conjunctive adverbs)

25c (compound sentences with other internal punctuation)

28 Quotation format

Especially: 28a (quotations from text)

28d (placement of quotation marks with other punctuation marks)

29 Ellipsis

31 Brackets

32 Slash

34 Capitalization, especially 34c (not with titles of papers)

35 Apostrophe, especially 35a (possessives)

36 Abbreviations (avoid using)

37 Underlining (italics)

Especially: 37a (book titles, except Bible and its parts)

37f (not with titles of papers)

39 Numbers, especially 39a (spell out)

40 Spelling, especially 40k (commonly confused words)

41g Sexist language (avoid)

Other useful info: its/it's, p. 209 or p. 230

whose/who's, p. 209

Glossary of usage, pp. 485-96

like/as, p. 492

is when/is where, p. 491

lie/lay, p. 492

reason is because, p. 494