8.SLAR_ESL.11.D

Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:: (i) Complete simple, compound, and complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments. (ii) Consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice. (iii) Conjunctive adverbs. (iv) Prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement. (v) Pronoun-antecedent agreement. (vi) Subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences. (vii) Correct capitalization. (viii) Punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses. (ix) Correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too.

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