Technical Writing ( modern world)
Chater II : BASIC
Grammatical errors can cause misunderstanding, distract the readers, and
give bad impression. If you can recognized independent clauses, you should be
able to avoid writing sentence fragment, run-on sentences and comma splices.
Make certain that your verbs agree with their subjects, the pronouns agree with
their antecedents, and that each pronouns refers clearly to the noun it stand for.
Most grammarians agree that the term grammatical error is applied too loosely
to a number of expressions that are not ungrammatical but that go against the
way most people think. Educated people should talk and write. Certainly some
errors of this kind actually keep your reader from getting your message.
Avoiding common grammatical errors
SENTENCE FRAGMENT - The writer of good sentences can usually develop a
feel for sentences- sentence sense. An important aspects of the sentence sense
needed by any effective writer is the ability to recognize and avoid using sentence
fragments – group of words mistakenly treated as complete sentence.
QUICK TIPS
The best rule of thumb to follow in checking your writing fragments is a
grammatical sentence must have at least one independent clause.
Chater II : BASIC
Grammatical errors can cause misunderstanding, distract the readers, and
give bad impression. If you can recognized independent clauses, you should be
able to avoid writing sentence fragment, run-on sentences and comma splices.
Make certain that your verbs agree with their subjects, the pronouns agree with
their antecedents, and that each pronouns refers clearly to the noun it stand for.
Most grammarians agree that the term grammatical error is applied too loosely
to a number of expressions that are not ungrammatical but that go against the
way most people think. Educated people should talk and write. Certainly some
errors of this kind actually keep your reader from getting your message.
Avoiding common grammatical errors
SENTENCE FRAGMENT - The writer of good sentences can usually develop a
feel for sentences- sentence sense. An important aspects of the sentence sense
needed by any effective writer is the ability to recognize and avoid using sentence
fragments – group of words mistakenly treated as complete sentence.
QUICK TIPS
The best rule of thumb to follow in checking your writing fragments is a
grammatical sentence must have at least one independent clause.
