Trademark Errors

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Pronoun Consistency (esp. shift into second person, use of the "intimate" you)

Run-on sentences (comma-splices, lack of subordination)

Reliance on to be

Indirect speech/questions (example: The author asked, will he be able to…) – becomes a major problem with paraphrasing.

Possession

Referencing/Deictics/Indexing (esp. when a demonstrative adjective refers to an entire sentence)

Shifts in verb tenses

Lack of logical connectors