PROOFREADING AND CORRECTION SYMBOLS

Numbers in parentheses refer to page numbers in Quick Access. 4th ed.2004.

Fr           Sentence Fragment (65-68) 

Cs          Comma Splice (68-71)

Fus         Fused Sentence (68-71)

Ag         Agreement: Subject and Verb (336-42) Pronoun and Antecedent (343-48)

MM      Misplaced Modifier or Phrase (77-78)

D          Dangling Modifier (79)

//           Faulty Parallelism (88-89)

Ca        Case (348-54)

Rf         Vague or faulty Reference of Pronoun (345-48)

Vb        Verb Form (325-32);subjunctive mood (334-35)

T          Wrong Tense (331-34)

T-S      Tense Shift (73-74)

Sh        Shifts in Voice, Mood, Person and Discourse (72-74)

CF       Confused Sentence Structure or Meaning (74-76)

F-C      Faulty Complement (75) or Faulty Comparison (76-77)

Diction Problems

Dict      Diction (110-116)

Sp       Spelling (118-120). Consult your Dictionary.

J          Jargon (116); see handout  

Us       Usage (93-110;121-26)

Wdy    Delete the Wordiness (79-83)  

Pl        Plural Needed

Pr       Wrong Preposition (369-72)

Punctuation Problems

\        A \ through a symbol means it should be deleted

C      Comma (382-95)

\;/      Semicolon (395)

\:/      Colon (396-98)

\'/      Apostrophe (398-401)

\"/     Quotation Marks (401-06)

--      Dash (408-09)

Cap  Capitalize (418-23)

lc       Put in lower case

Abr   Abbreviation (425-29)

It      Place in italic type or underline when writing(423-25)

Num Numbers (429-30)

Paragraph and Essay Problems

¶       New Paragraph Needed (34-36)

Tr     Transition Needed (38-39)

Coh   Lack of Paragraph Coherence (37-39)

Dev   Lack of Paragraph Development (39-45)

Log   Faulty Logic (53-58)

Exp   Lack of Clarity: Further explanation is needed

Sub   Sentence combining and Subordination (82-87)

/        Delete the word or phrase indicated

?       I cannot make out this word or phrase

Last Modified: 9/12/03