Subject-verb agreement and pronoun-antecedent agreement

Agreement is the art of making sure that sentence parts agree with one another; you want to make sure that your subjects and verbs match up. 

Subject-verb agreement

An antecedent is “the thing that came before”. When you use a pronoun, it’s standing in for a word you used previously—that’s the antecedent. Join us as we demonstrate how to make sure that your pronouns and antecedents match up with one another: that’s ca

Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Fragments and run-ons

A sentence fragment is a chunk of language that hasn’t made it all the way to being a working sentence; it might be missing a verb, or there might not be a subject. Learn how to turn a fragment into a sentence in this video! 

Recognizing fragments

A run-on sentence doesn’t separate any of its independent clauses with the punctuation that it needs, and a comma splice incorrectly separates two independent clauses with a comma, instead of a comma-and-coordinating-conjunction. 

Run-ons and comma splices

Dangling modifiers and parallel structure

A modifying word or phrase “dangles” when it doesn’t apply to the word it’s supposed to modify, as in the sentence "Flashing lightning and thunder, the rabbit ran through the stormy meadow." It isn't the rabbit, after all, that is flashing lightning!

Dangling modifiers

Parallel structure maintains a pattern across a sentence: it isn't a grammar choice so much as it is a matter of rhythm or style. This is a very special episode because it’s Paige’s last video with us as a KA intern! We will miss having Paige as a contribu

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