STANDARD PROOFREADING MARKS

Mark

Meaning

Example

Begin a new paragraph

No

Do not begin a new

paragraph

"Hi," said Marie. No

"I hear you went to Tommy's last night."

Put a period here

Capitalize this letter

Make this letter lowercase

Insert something

Separate

It happened at the subwaylstation.

Delete something

___

Delete this word (these

words)

John came to the party and Matt came to the

party.

Add space
Delete the extra space
Spelling error
Word choice (this isn't the
correct word)
Run-on sentence

Sentence Fragment

//

Faulty Parallelism

mm

Misplaced Modifier

My income is bigger than my wife

I went last night to school. mm/

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indent; make paragraph
indentation

Take over and start new

paragraph

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Reverse Order

Run in
No new paragraph.

-------

Stet Leave the text

as it was and ignore The cat sat on the mat.
any marks that have
---been made
hyphen

or Stet.

multi-colored

en dash (shorter
than the em dash but
1965 1972 (result)
longer than a
hyphen)

awk

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vt

em dash (or long

dash)

Nowat last!we know. (result)

awkward phrasing

The pharmacist gave the prescription to the

customer, explained the medication, and then he
paid for it.
awk

Correction has
concluded

Used to separate two or more marks and often as a

concluding stroke at then end of an insertion.

Subject-verb
agreement

The problem with these cities are leadership.

Verb Tense problem

He comes into the room, and he pulled his gun

dev

Paragraph not
developed

coh

Paragraph not
coherent

log

Faulty Logic

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