Verbs. Simple present: I hate me We hate me You hate me.       You hate me It hates me          They hate me Simple present with irregular verb. I do me                We do me You do me          You do me He does me        They do me Simple past: I despised your socks We [...]

Pronoun references must be clear. Each pronoun must have a clear antecedent. The antecedent is the noun to which the pronoun refers. When it is not clear who or what the antecedent is, the reader becomes confused. In the following sentence, it is unclear whether the pronoun he refers to Kane or to Abel: After [...]

Fragments and Run-ons A sentence fragment, or incomplete sentence, is not a sentence, though sometimes it looks like one. On Christmas morning, when she came to my room to wake me with a delectable slice of cheesecake and two scoops of vanilla ice cream. She wore a big smile. And nothing else. Viewed alone, the [...]

Make verb agree with its subject, not with a word that comes between. Wrong: The overplucked brows on that face needs serious eyebrow penciling. Right: The overplucked brows on that face need serious eyebrow penciling. The word “and” makes the subject plural Wrong: His broad soft belly and glassy gray eye scares me to my [...]