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• When editing and proofreading your writing, you
  should check for the following easy-to-fix
  errors.
• 1) Between or Among?
• When describing groups or connections, use
  between for two parties and among for three
  or more.
• Between cats and dogs, I prefer cats.
• When someone started throwing rocks, the fragile
  détente between the police and the protesters
  fell apart.
• Researchers have not yet clearly outlined the
  relationships among teacher knowledge, classroom
  environment, and student performance.
• The CEO could achieve no consensus among his
  department chiefs.

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Fewer or Less?

• Understanding this distinction requires that you
  understand the difference between countable and
  uncountable quantities. You can easily count a
  countable quantity. Bottles or people are
  countable. Sugar and love are not.
• He earned fewer accolades than I did.
• She has less ambition than I do.

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Affect or Effect?

• You will most always see affect as a verb and
  effect as a noun.
• When one entity influences another, use affect.
• Music affects my mood Upbeat music makes me
  happy, and slow music makes me sad.
• When you describe the result of influence, use
  effect.
• The effect of the hurricane was hundreds of
  thousands in property damage and the displacement
  of thousands of families.

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• However, effect can be used as a verb in one
  particular phrase effect change (meaning make
  change).
• We can effect positive change by giving
  inspirational speeches or by getting our hands
  dirty and helping others directly.
• Affect (meaning emotion usually as observed in
  facial expression or body posture) can also be a
  noun, but this is very specific and usually
  appears in a psychological context.
• His affect was inappropriate. He smiled during
  the funeral.

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i.e. or e.g.?

• i.e. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase
  id est or that is. You should only use this
  when you are restating an idea in different
  words.
• e.g. is an abbreviation for the Latin exempli
  gratia meaning for example. You should only
  use this when you are giving examples to
  illustrate an idea.
• Use these inside parentheses and with a comma.
  Use that is to say or that is for i.e. and
  for example for e.g. if you do not want to use
  parentheses.
• Multiple environmental factors (e.g., diet and
  parenting style) influence behavior.

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I or me

• I is a subject pronoun, and me is an object
  pronoun. Subjects begin sentences or clauses.
  They are the doers (e.g., I walked the dog) or
  be-ers (e.g., I am smart). Objects receive action
  (e.g., the dog bit me). Most writers know this,
  but they get confused in two cases.
• The first is where you want to include the first
  person in a compound subject. Suzanne and me
  walked the dog is incorrect. The first person is
  part of the subject, so you must use the subject
  pronoun I.
• Second, many writers do not know what to use
  after a preposition. By convention, you always
  use the object pronoun me.
• Between you and me, moms cake is disgusting!
• Good luck editing and proofreading!

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