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Topic 810 sections

Level Up Your Mechanics and Editing

Perfect your grammar, punctuation, and editing skills. Avoid common pitfalls and polish your prose to professional standards.

GrammarPunctuationEditingClarity

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Begin with: Avoid Common Legal Grammar Pitfalls

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1

Avoid Common Legal Grammar Pitfalls

Grammar essentials

2

Be Mindful of Modifiers

Modifier placement

3

Agree Subjects with Verbs

Subject-verb agreement

  • 1

    Prefer active voice unless passive serves a specific purpose

  • 2

    Place modifiers next to what they modify

  • 3

    Keep lists and comparisons grammatically parallel

  • 4

    Use commas to prevent misreading, not just to follow rules

  • 5

    Master the em dash for emphasis and the semicolon for contrast

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Advanced Style

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Write in Parallel

Parallel structure

5

Write Clearly

Clarity techniques

6

Prefer the Active (Usually)

Active vs passive voice

7

Use Inclusive Language

Modern language

8

Punctuate Perfectly

Punctuation mastery

9

Use Commas in the Right Places

Comma rules

10

Use Semicolons to Contrast or Expand

Semicolon usage

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Comma Placement in Legal Writing

Practice proper comma usage in legal sentences.

Text EditIntermediate

Active Voice: Find the Hidden Actors

Rewrite a passive-heavy paragraph to reveal who did what — using clear, direct active voice.

Text EditIntermediate

Modifiers and Parallelism: Fix the Broken Brief

Rewrite a paragraph riddled with dangling modifiers and parallelism errors to create clear, grammatically correct legal prose.

Text EditIntermediate

Grammar Bootcamp: Fix the Brief

Identify and correct subject-verb agreement errors, misplaced modifiers, parallelism failures, and other grammar issues in this excerpt from a legal brief.

Text EditIntermediate

Possessives and Plurals: Untangle the Apostrophes

Fix the possessive and plural errors in this estate litigation brief — including tricky names ending in S, irregular plurals, and plural possessives.

Text EditIntermediate

Adjectives and Modifiers: Untangle the Description

Fix dangling modifiers, hyphenate phrasal adjectives correctly, punctuate coordinate adjectives, and cut the adjective clutter in this courtroom scene.

Text EditIntermediate

Commonly Confused Words: Spot Every Mistake

This brief is packed with commonly confused words — principal/principle, affect/effect, lay/lie, lose/loose, and many more. Find and fix them all.

Text EditIntermediate

Comma Mastery: The Complete Legal Writing Workout

Fix every comma error in this contract dispute brief — missing commas, misplaced commas, comma splices, serial commas, and more.

TransformIntermediate

Proofreading Bootcamp: Find Every Error

Sharpen your proofreading eye with 10 increasingly difficult passages — from obvious typos to subtle errors that slip past most lawyers.

Text EditAdvanced

Punctuation Mastery: Every Mark, Every Rule

Fix errors across ALL punctuation marks — commas, semicolons, colons, em dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, and more in this litigation brief.