I chose the grammar chapter in the book, Rules for Writers. Although the chapter sounds like it just shows something we all would already know about, I picked it because I still make small grammar mistakes without even noticing. Mistakes that I didn't even realize I was making until I read this chapter. I think grammar is the most important thing to maintain when writing an essay, because It only takes a couple mistakes to make the whole essay sound unproffesional.
This chapter started out talking about sentence fragments. These are the little unfinished sentence that are either missing a verb or a subject. To fix these you can tag them onto another sentence, or finish the sentence with a subject or a verb. This isn't a common mistake for me, because I tend to add a lot of commas and jam sentences together. The next subject is my real problem. Run on sentences can be hard to notice and seeing as though i put a lot of my sentences together I have this problem. Run on sentences are sentences that are jammed together making two independent clauses connect. This can be avoided by separating the sentences or adding a word down the middle that brings them together.
The next subject brought up is about connecting the right verbs with nouns. It is important to get in the habit of connecting nouns past, present, or future with the right verbs. "He says" makes a lot more sense than "He Say". I have a good habit of this, and probably most people who have grown up with the English language.
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