abbreviation used incorrectly

incorrect use of adjective (quick for quickly, for instance)

incorrect adverb use

apostrophe omission

apostrophe error

awkward construction

word should be capitalized

word should not be capitalized

incoherent

comma splice (a comma separating two sentences)

ineffective/inappropriate use of clichés

faulty coordination

dangling modifier

inadequately developed

incorrect/inadequate documentation

faulty comparison (more friendlier, for instance)

sentence fragment

language too informal (colloquial, slang, dialect)

should be italicized or underlined

delete italics or underlining

illogical statement

misplaced modifier

incorrect manuscript form

incorrect use of numbers

punctuation omission*

punctuation error*

new paragraph

no new paragraph

incorrect pronoun case (between you and I for between you and me, for instance)

pronoun and antecedent agreement

incorrect pronoun reference

incorrect use of second person point of view

faulty parallelism

needless repetition

revise

run-on or fused sentence (two sentences not separated by a period or semicolon)

subject and verb disagreement

shift in voice or person

inappropriate use or overuse of slang

mispelling

faulty subordination

incorrect tense

incorrect verb form

wrong word (effect for affect, for instance)

wordiness

* Paper readers usually insert these marks when they are omitted and delete them when they are overused:

period

question mark

exclamation point

comma

semicolon

colon

apostrophe

quotation marks

hyphen

dash

parentheses

brackets

slash

ellipses