Before you turn in your paper, reread it carefully, word by word, sentence by sentence, looking for ways to improve your writing. Use the following checklist to find and correct basic grammatical flaws. Check off each item when you are sure the paper contains no errors of that type. Pass in this checklist with your paper.
Every word is spelled correctly.
Even if you use a spell-checker, you must make sure it has not missed incorrect usages of correctly spelled words, such as to for too , forth for fourth , or their for there . The paper contains no contractions, especially it's . But remember that the possessive pronoun its has no apostrophe. The paper contains no sentence fragments or incomplete sentences. Sentence fragments occur when you treat a piece of a sentence as if it were a sentence.