Integration & Review
📋 What it is
Real editing checks several rules at once: agreement, punctuation, tense, and clarity together.
🗣️ Coach says
On a real sentence you don’t check one rule — you check them all. Does the verb agree? Is the punctuation right? Is the tense steady? Is it clear? A quick pass over each catches most problems.
🧠 Memory hook
One sentence, a checklist: agreement ✓ punctuation ✓ tense ✓ clarity ✓.
😂 Giggle
What did the passive voice say to the active voice?
"Mistakes were made... but not by me!"
😲 Whoa!
Editors use checklists for exactly this reason — even experts can’t hold every rule in mind at once, so they check one layer at a time.
✅ Quick check: “Me and him was late, so we misses the start.” Name two errors.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
“Me and him” should be “He and I” (subject pronouns), and “was/misses” break subject-verb agreement (should be “were”/“missed”).
Real editing means catching multiple rule violations in one sentence.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Take one messy sentence and fix it using a 4-item checklist: agreement, punctuation, tense, clarity.