Conventions of Standard English

Definition

Conventions of Standard English in plain English

Master clause boundaries, agreement, modifiers, pronouns, verbs, and punctuation rather than memorizing isolated edits.

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Related Enhanced ACT terms

• Comma Splice
• Compound Predicate
• Coordinate Adjectives
• Dangling Modifier
• Dependent (Subordinate) Clause
• Equating
• Idiom
• Independent Clause
• Paired Passage
• Parallelism