WRITING CORRECTION KEY

Symbol Explanation Example

T Verb Tense
She studied in Singapore next year.

VF Verb Form
I like go to the supermarket.

SV Subject-verb Agreement
The manager work hard.

A/P Active / Passive Voice A/P

They were read many books.

Singular / Plural / There are two apple.

N
Uncountable noun
Word(s) missing
(i.e. article, preposition,
(art, prep, trans, transition, conjunction, verb,
conj, v, s, etc.) subject, etc.)
He eats lots of sugars.
Shrimp, fish are the most popular dishes.
conj
The employees on time.
V
We start serving dinner 6 p.m.

Prep. Wrong preposition

They live at Australia.

Art. Wrong article

The money makes the world go around.

SP Spelling
The maneger is a woman.

WF Wrong word form

This is a development country.

WW Wrong word
I was hungry, but I ate a big bowl of Pho.

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 Wrong word order

Unnecessary word Although he’s quiet, but he’s popular.

RO Run-on (fused sentence) Lily is hardworking she is employee of the

month.

Every one works hard.

Join words/sentences
They are nice. And friendly.

He enjoys watching movies, riding his bike,

Faulty parallelism and to go to Disneyland.

Cap / P Capitalization / Punctuation

she has many books She loves reading.

I am going 2 class right now.

Coll. Slang / Colloquialism

My daughter loves PBJ sandwiches.

/ Good / Excellent My English teacher is the sweetest teacher in


the world.
New paragraph

? Confusing passage

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