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Writing and Research Exercises Writing and Research Exercises	33. Grammatical Sentences 1. Sentence Fragments 2. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 3. Verbs 4. Subject-Verb Agreement 5. Pronoun Case 6. Pronoun Reference 7. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 8. Adjectives and Adverbs 9. Shifts
34. Effective Sentences 10. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 11. Incomplete Sentences 12. Mixed Constructions and Faulty Predication 13. Parallel Structure 14. Coordination and Subordination 15. Sentence Variety	35. Word Choice 16. Appropriateness 17. Exact Words 18. Bias-Free Language 19. Wordiness
36. Punctuation 20. End Punctuation 21. The Comma 22. The Semicolon 23. The Colon 24. The Apostrophe 25. Quotation Marks 26. The Dash 27. Parenthesis, Brackets, and the Ellipsis Mark	37. Mechanics 28. Abbreviations 29. Capital Letters 30. Numbers 31. Italics 32. The Hyphen 33. Spelling