Meaning Choose Your Words

Place Your Words

Match Your Words
Avoid Redundancy
Subject Verb Agreement Subject - Verb Presence
Subject - Verb Meaning
Subject - Verb Agreement by numbers
Flip to find the right subject
Parallelism Identify Parallelism Markers
Identify the type of logical structures
Bring parallel ligical parts into the same structure
Markers And
Both..And
Or
Either..Or
Not, But
Not Only, But Also
Rather than
From X to Y
Idiomatic Expressions X Acts as Y
As X, so Y
Between X and Y
Consider X Y
Compared to X, Y
In Contrast to X, Y
Declare X Y
X Differs from Y
X Develops into Y
Distinguish X from Y
Estimate X to be Y
X Instead of Y
X is Known to be Y
X is Less than Y
Make X Y
Mistake X for Y
Not only X, But also Y
Regard X as Y
X is the Same as Y
X is good and So Too is Y
X, Such as Y
Think of X as Y
X is Thought to be Y
View X as Y
Whether X is Y
To Be
Linking Verbs is
are
was
were
be
been
being
am
Parrallelism Logical Structure Types Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Infinitives
Participles
Subordinate Clauses
Prepositional Phrases
Superficial vs Actual
Understand Meaning and break down the
sentence and Logical Structures
MERGE W OFFICE VERSION
Pronouns Antecedant should be present
Pronoun and Antecedant should match in
meaning
Pronoun and Antecedant should match in
number
PRONOUN AMBIGUITY
Subject Pronouns I
he
she
it
we
they
who
Object Pronouns I
him
her
it
us
them
whom
Possesive Pronouns my/mine
his
her/hers
its
our/ours
their/theirs
whose
Rule
an antecedent which is a possessive noun
should have a possessive pronoun
HOW TO MODIFY - remove the possessive
from the noun
This, These, That, Those as ADJECTIVES
That, Those
New Copy : to refer the same noun but
modified to include another clause
RULE: 'New Copy' pronoun matches in
number to the Antecedent
Do not use it to refer a NOUN
This, These Do not use it to refer a NOUN
Its, Its, They, Their, Them Their - Only PLURAL
TO REFER TO THE SAME NOUN ALWAYS use OBJECT PRONOUNS
Similar meaning
Placement changing meaning
Subject Verb Agreement, Pronoun
Agreement
Find and isolate Subject and Verb 1) Prepositional Phrases
2) Subordinate Clauses - big adjective, big
adverb, big noun
3) Other Modifiers
And vs Additive Phrases Plural vs Singular (if subject is singular)
Either..or, Neither..nor
Plural or Singular depending on second
subject/noun
Collective nouns Singular
Indefinite pronouns
~one,~body,~thing are always singular,
whatever, whoever, each and every are
always singular
SANAM
Not one
Each and Every Singular if preceded by the subject
Plural if followed by a plural subject
Quantity Indicators The number - singular
A number of, half of, <quantity
designator> of - singular
Majority, minority
Subject is Clause or Phrase Singular
Apply rules if any for specific types
Other Forms
appears
become
feel
grow
look
regard
resemble
represent
stay
seem
smell
sound
turn
taste
If a sentence has more than one noun and one pronoun:
look for parallelism between the clause with the noun and
the clause with the pronoun
first person singular
second person singular
second person singular
second person singular
first person plural
second person plural
third person singular/plural
eg: The committee reviewed several executives'
compensation packages to find out how much inappropriate
funds was allocated to THEM
The compensation packages of several executives was
reviewed to find out how much misappropriate funds
THEY/THESE EXECUTIVES have been awarded
X - Not Matching : use the same noun again in place of 'New
Copy' pronoun
Unless as a NEW COPY
Use they, them instead
eg: she has roses: those/these are good X
she has roses: they are good
Plural/Singular
depending on the
subject
Singular
SANAM pronouns rules
Collective nouns rules