Tap every sentence problem Strunk's rules would catch
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- Questions
- Items
- Text
- Two clauses joined by a bare comma
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- A dangling participial opening
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- Padding like 'due to the fact that'
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- A correctly placed topic sentence
- Matches the category
- No
- Text
- An active-voice sentence
- Matches the category
- No
- Category
- A problem Strunk's rules catch
The rules exist because these errors are common. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.