Apostrophes are another small yet completely necessary form of punctuation that cause many errors and much unnecessary second-guessing as we write. Let’s discuss how we add “apostrophe s” (‘s) to show belonging, owning, or possessing. Examples: The man’s car is over there. (The car belongs to the man. Our friend’s…
The mistake of repeating ideas in our writing is easy to make. Repeating unnecessarily is called being redundant or redundancy. Most of the time, this happens when we are not paying enough attention as we write, but some students will try to “write more” by adding unnecessary words and becoming…
A run-on sentence goes on too long, has too many parts, loses the subject, and/or lacks correct noun-verb connections. Usually, a run-on is either two or more different thoughts put together, or a list of things or actions that keeps going and going too long. Let’s take a closer look!…