ENGLISH 2311
PROOFREADING AND CORRECTION SYMBOLS
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Sentence Problems
Fr Sentence Fragment (648-49)
CS Comma Splice (662-63)
Fus Fused Sentence (662-63)
Ag Agreement: Subject and Verb (667-68)
Pronoun and Antecedent (659-60)
Ca Case
D Dangling Modifier (622)
MM Misplaced Modifier or phrase (653)
Rf Vague or faulty Reference or Pronoun (660)
T Wrong Tense
T-S Tense Shift
G Garbled or Confused Sentence structure or Meaning
// Faulty Parallelism (657)
F-C Faulty Complement or Faulty Comparison
Diction Problems
Sp Spelling (665-67). Consult your dictionary.
J Jargon Word or Phrase
Us Usage
Wdy Fat Prose: Delete the wordiness
Pl Plural Needed
Pr Wrong Preposition
Dict Diction (105-09). Includes trite expressions and colloquial language
Awk Awkward Phrasing
Punctuation Problems
\ A \ through a symbol means it should be deleted
c Comma (618-22)
\ ; / Semicolon (663-64)
\ : / Colon (617-18)
\ ‘ / Apostrophy (613-15)
\ " / Quotation Marks (661-62)
Cap Capitalize (616-17)
lc Put in lower case
Abr Abbreviation (611-12)
It Underline to indicate italic type (652-53)
Paragraph and Essay Problems
¶ Paragraphing (92-96)
Tr Transition Needed (94-95)
Coh Lack of Paragraph Coherence
Dev Lack of Paragraph Development
Log Faulty Logic (26); Handout
Exp Lack of Clarity: Further explanation is needed
Primer S Primer Style: Sentence combining and subordination needed (07-104)
Delete the word or phrase indicated
? I cannot make out this word or phrase