How To Avoid Common Grammar Mistakes In Essay
                     How To Avoid Common Grammar 
Mistakes In Essay Writing
Spelling mistakes
• Try to avoid spelling mistakes especially in the 
case of words with the same pronunciation but 
different in meaning, such as “your” and “you’re”
Subject-verb agreement
• Remember to use singular verb with singular 
subject and plural verb with plural subject.
▫ Wrong: Yash go to school every day.
▫ Right: Yash goes to school every day.
Missing introductory commas
• After any introductory phrase, word, or clause, 
use a comma in order to separate that from the 
rest.
▫ Example: In the study, we were unable to find 
any conclusion.
Sentence fragments
• A phrase written as sentence but lacking an 
element from a sentence as a subject or verb is 
called sentence fragment.
▫ Wrong: When he got into the car. he closed the 
windows.
▫ Right: When he got into the car, he closed the 
windows.
Lack of parallelism
• Parallelism, otherwise called parallel structure, is 
accomplished when syntactically comparable segments 
or expressions with comparative linguistic structure are 
utilized in a sentence.
▫ Incorrect: Rani likes reading, writing, and to paint.
Correct: Rani likes to read, write, and paint.
Wordiness
Instead of confusing others by too much uses of 
words try to make it simple and concise.
Adjective/adverb confusion
• Don’t get confused with adjective & adverb. 
Adjective is used with a noun or pronoun where 
as adverb is used with a verb, an adjective, or an 
adverb.
Proofread your essay 
• This is highly effective method to avoid the error 
in essay writing.
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