UCI Correction Symbols & Quia Quizzes
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Symbol |
Meaning | Example | Advice / Practice Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|
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agr |
agreement | Between you and I, each one of us needs their own job. | Pronoun Reference & Agreement |
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cs |
comma splice | I had a question, I asked the professor. | Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices |
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dm |
dangling modifier | After talking to him, the information was clear. | Purdue Online Writing Lab |
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frag |
fragment | If you were a scientist. | Sentence Structure |
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id |
idioms / set expressions | He was involved on the math projects. |
Prepositions
Adjective and Preposition |
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mixed |
mixed constructions | He decided to go to school is because he felt better. | Nipissing University, English Studies |
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num |
number | He finished his researches; now he needs more equipments and times. |
Number Articles |
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p |
punctuation | Though odd this story is true. | Purdue Online Writing Lab |
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red |
redundancy | This class seems easy, so I'm going to take this class. | 200 Common Redundancies |
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ref |
unclear pronoun reference | My essay is in my car and my keys. Will you please bring it? | Pronoun Reference and Agreement |
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ro |
run-on | No one knows the answer it is hard to solve each problem. | Sentence structure |
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sp |
spelling | Acheiving dreams is importent. | Purdue Online Writing Lab |
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s-v |
subject-verb agreement | Everybody have traditions. | Subject/Verb Agreement |
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t |
tense | I will be in class yesterday. | Verb Tense |
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vb |
verb form | He is enroll in French, and he is try to added another class. He will has to spend more time study. |
Passive Voice Verb Form |
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wf |
word form | We will become independence thinkers and writers. | Typical Suffixes Word Form |
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ww |
wrong word | He was very tired that he left. | |
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^ |
insert | She will be enrolled just ^ time. | Articles |
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delete |
He fell off (of) his bicycle. |
Articles |
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¶ |
paragraph | Researchers have found evidence of insecticides
in our ocean.
One of the first studies was completed two years ago. |
Purdue Online Writing Lab Basic Paragraph Structure |
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-// |
parallelism | Winning and lose is part of playing the game. | Purdue Online Writing Lab |
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# |
add a space | It's infront of the building. | Merriam Webster Dictionary |
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move here | The boy revised his work who was sitting next to me. | Exploring English |
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transpose | She's on time usually. | Exploring English |
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rephrase | He hasn't got a clue. | Purdue Online Writing Lab |
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?? |
Not understandable | It's like which that you need. | Exploring English |