We've heard professors complain that students seem to make the same grammar mistakes over and over again. Indeed, a study by Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors show that this impression is correct: twenty different grammatical mistakes comprise 91.5 percent of all errors in student writing. If professors can teach students to control these common errors, they will alleviate most of the grammar errors that they find so distracting.
Twenty Most Commonly Occurring Errors
1. No comma after introductory phrases
2. Vague pronoun reference
3. No comma in compound sentence
4. Wrong word
5. No comma in non-restrictives
6. Wrong/missing inflected ends
7. Wrong/missing preposition
8. Comma splice
9. Possessive apostrophe error
10. Tense shift
11. Unnecessary shift in person
12. Sentence fragment
13. Wrong tense or verb form
14. Subject-verb agreement
15. Lack of comma in a series
16. Pronoun agreement error
17. Unnecessary commas with restrictives
18. Run-on, fused sentence
19. Dangling, misplaced modifier
20. Its/it's error
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