Accuracy in EAP
Proofreading: Nouns
Introduction
Many mistakes are simply avoided by proofreading.
1. Check your plurals.
Read the following sentences and notice the plural nouns. See, for example, Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan (1999, chap. 4.5) for more information.
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2. Check your countable/uncountable nouns.
Read the following text and notice the countable and uncountable nouns. See, for example, Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan (1999, chap. 4.3) for more information.
The resources of society consist not only of the free gifts of nature, such as land, forests, and minerals, but also of human capacity, both mental and physical, and all sorts of man-made aids to further production such as tools, machinery and buildings. An introduction to positive economics. R. G. Lipsey. |
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3. Check the order of modifiers.
When a noun has two or more premodifiers, these tend to occur in a certain order. See, for example, Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan (1999, chap. 8.4) for more information.
Read the following phrases and notice the order of the premodifiers before the head noun.
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Exercise
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