grammatical errors
Broken sentence rules
Grammatical errors are mistakes in the structure or rules of language—subject-verb disagreement, misplaced modifiers, wrong tense, faulty pronoun reference.
The term covers violations of standard grammar rather than spelling or word choice: The paper was full of grammatical errors.
What counts as an error depends partly on register; casual speech tolerates constructions that formal writing doesn't.
- misspellingsIncorrectly written words
- spelling beeWord-accuracy competition
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- proofreadingChecking text for mistakes
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Adherence to language rules
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