Run-Ons and Comma Splices
When two complete sentences get jammed together without the right punctuation, the result confuses readers and costs points on the editing questions. The good news is that these errors follow a clear pattern, and once you see it, you can fix them in seconds. A run-on sentence joins two independent clauses with no punctuation between […]
Sentence Fragments
Once you know what a complete sentence needs, spotting an incomplete one becomes much easier. Fragments are one of the most common errors the editing questions ask you to fix, and they hide inside writing that otherwise looks polished. A sentence fragment is a group of words that is punctuated like a sentence — capital […]
