Before handing in any text, check these points in this order:
| ✓ | Check | Typical error |
|---|---|---|
| ☐ | Did I cover every point of the task? Right register (tú / usted)? 150–180 words? | missing one point = big penalty |
| ☐ | Verbs: right tense (past tenses contrast), agreement with subject | la gente piensan |
| ☐ | Subjunctive after que in wishes, emotions, judgements, negative opinions; after cuando + future; para que | espero que vienes |
| ☐ | Conditional sentences: si + imperf. subj. → conditional | si tendría |
| ☐ | Ser / estar, hay / está | es en la playa (location) |
| ☐ | Agreement: noun–adjective–article (gender and number) | los problemas son grave |
| ☐ | Prepositions: verbs with fixed prepositions (Unit 65), por / para, personal a | depende en |
| ☐ | Pronouns: le / lo, se lo, position | le lo dije |
| ☐ | Connectors: varied, not repeated; correct punctuation after them | sin embargo without comma |
| ☐ | Accents: está, también, más, qué/cómo (questions), él, sí, sé, verb forms (habló, comía) | tambien |
| ☐ | Punctuation: colon after the greeting; no comma between subject and verb | Estimado señor, |
| ☐ | Range: at least one relative clause, one conditional, one concessive, one subjunctive, one precise verb (V36) | text too simple |