Grammar Help

Grammar is not about sounding fancy. It is about helping your reader understand your meaning.

This page is for students who want clearer sentences, fewer repeated errors, and more confidence editing their own work.

Topics may include:

• Run-on sentences
• Sentence fragments
• Comma use
• Subject-verb agreement
• Verb tense
• Articles: a, an, the
• Word choice
• Sentence variety
• Pronoun clarity
• Common proofreading strategies

One of the best grammar habits is to read your writing out loud slowly. If you run out of breath, lose track of the sentence, or hear something awkward, that sentence may need revision.

Grammar improves with practice. You do not have to fix everything at once.

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Sentence types and punctuation patterns:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55936783

Verb tenses:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55936877

Active and passive voice:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55941768

Academic voice and tense:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=70511550

Commas:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55942359

Frequent punctuation mistakes and corrections:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=69505449

Detecting fragments and run-ons:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55942509

Plurals and possessives:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=81564085

Frequently misused words:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55942899

Instead of says/said, try...:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55942919

Parallelism:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=55942949

Transitional words and phrases:

https://guides.frederick.edu/ld.php?content_id=72871532