Overview

The Troubleshooter is a guide to the most common errors in English grammar and punctuation and how to avoid them.

The Troubleshooter includes suggestions for fixing sentence fragments and run-on sentences and offers help with subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, pronoun reference, and pronoun shifts. It also includes examples of shifts in verb tenses, incorrectly used verb forms, and misplaced and dangling modifiers. Finally, the guide includes punctuation topics such as the possessive apostrophe and the comma.

Be sure to read the entire Troubleshooter to become familiar with common errors and ways of correcting them. Use it as a reference during the revising and editing phases of the writing process.