Meaning Choose Your Words

Place Your Words

Match Your Words

Avoid Redundancy

Subject Verb Agreement Subject - Verb Presence

Subject - Verb Meaning

Subject - Verb Agreement by numbers

Flip to find the right subject

Parallelism Identify Parallelism Markers

Identify the type of logical structures

Bring parallel ligical parts into the same structure

Markers And

Both..And

Or

Either..Or

Not, But

Not Only, But Also

Rather than

From X to Y

Idiomatic Expressions X Acts as Y

As X, so Y

Between X and Y

Consider X Y

Compared to X, Y

In Contrast to X, Y

Declare X Y

X Differs from Y

X Develops into Y

Distinguish X from Y

Estimate X to be Y

X Instead of Y

X is Known to be Y

X is Less than Y

Make X Y

Mistake X for Y

Not only X, But also Y

Regard X as Y

X is the Same as Y

X is good and So Too is Y

X, Such as Y

Think of X as Y

X is Thought to be Y

View X as Y

Whether X is Y

To Be

Linking Verbs is

are

was

were

be

been

being

am

Parrallelism Logical Structure Types Nouns

Adjectives

Verbs

Infinitives

Participles

Subordinate Clauses

Prepositional Phrases

Superficial vs Actual

Understand Meaning and break down the

sentence and Logical Structures

MERGE W OFFICE VERSION

Pronouns Antecedant should be present

Pronoun and Antecedant should match in

meaning

Pronoun and Antecedant should match in

number

PRONOUN AMBIGUITY

Subject Pronouns I

he

she

it

we

they

who

Object Pronouns I

him

her

it

us

them

whom

Possesive Pronouns my/mine

his

her/hers

its

our/ours

their/theirs

whose

Rule

an antecedent which is a possessive noun

should have a possessive pronoun

HOW TO MODIFY - remove the possessive

from the noun

This, These, That, Those as ADJECTIVES

That, Those

New Copy : to refer the same noun but

modified to include another clause

RULE: 'New Copy' pronoun matches in

number to the Antecedent

Do not use it to refer a NOUN

This, These Do not use it to refer a NOUN

Its, Its, They, Their, Them Their - Only PLURAL

TO REFER TO THE SAME NOUN ALWAYS use OBJECT PRONOUNS

Similar meaning

Placement changing meaning

Subject Verb Agreement, Pronoun

Agreement

Find and isolate Subject and Verb 1) Prepositional Phrases

2) Subordinate Clauses - big adjective, big

adverb, big noun

3) Other Modifiers

And vs Additive Phrases Plural vs Singular (if subject is singular)

Either..or, Neither..nor

Plural or Singular depending on second

subject/noun

Collective nouns Singular

Indefinite pronouns

~one,~body,~thing are always singular,

whatever, whoever, each and every are

always singular

SANAM

Not one

Each and Every Singular if preceded by the subject

Plural if followed by a plural subject

Quantity Indicators The number - singular

A number of, half of, <quantity

designator> of - singular

Majority, minority

Subject is Clause or Phrase Singular

Apply rules if any for specific types

Other Forms

appears

become

feel

grow

look

regard

resemble

represent

stay

seem

smell

sound

turn

taste

If a sentence has more than one noun and one pronoun:

look for parallelism between the clause with the noun and

the clause with the pronoun

first person singular

second person singular

second person singular

second person singular

first person plural

second person plural

third person singular/plural

eg: The committee reviewed several executives'

compensation packages to find out how much inappropriate

funds was allocated to THEM

The compensation packages of several executives was

reviewed to find out how much misappropriate funds

THEY/THESE EXECUTIVES have been awarded

X - Not Matching : use the same noun again in place of 'New

Copy' pronoun

Unless as a NEW COPY

Use they, them instead

eg: she has roses: those/these are good X

she has roses: they are good

Plural/Singular

depending on the

subject

Singular

SANAM pronouns rules

Collective nouns rules