Common Writing Errors
Eliminating these common errors from your writing will do wonders for making your writing look like it comes from an intelligent, educated person.
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Summary
The errors covered in this booklet are:
- Writing a lot as alot.
- Confusing loose and lose.
- Incorrect apostrophe use.
- Not capitalizing I, I'm, I'll, I've.
- Using texting abbreviations in writing.
- Confusing you're and your.
- Confusing there, their, and they're.
- Writing non-words such as gotta, gonna, girlz, etc.
- Run-on sentences. (Also see this Brainsheet on sentences.)
- Writing should of, etc., instead of should have.
- Confusing where and were.
- Writing sentence fragments.
- Confusing present and past tense verbs.
- Confusing it's and its.