A good writer has an innate sense of a sentence, and when students unknowingly write fragments they show a lack of this innate sense. True run-on sentence. Such a sentence breaks down because the reader can t keep all its constituent bits of information straight and thereby fully understand the sentence. Frequent breakdown in parallel structure. Longer sentences that make poor use of parallelism should be recast.
Parallelism is an important characteristic of clear syntax, especially in long sentence structures.
These errors are typical in the efforts of many writers can often be avoided by the person s learning to be a more careful writer or a more skilled proofreader. Though they create bothersome problems for attentive readers, such errors rarely impair communication seriously and usually pertain more to carelessness than lack of skill. . . Pronoun does not have clear antecedent. Spelling and Punctuation These are among the least problematic yet the most constant mechanical errors. Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are the marks that end sentences.