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Check immediate surroundings or context—are the tenses all consistent or is that an isolated one that is inconsistent with its cousins?

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Check timeframe: Is this in the past, present, future, etc.? (Note: Not foolproof; for instance, some writers may represent a past encounter in the present tense to lend their narrative a sense of immediacy and immerse their reader more experientially but good writers—the sort whose work will be used for Editing exercises—will be CONSISTENT and INTENTIONAL with this.)

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look out for certain fixed words like a number and the number
a number: needs a plural noun
a number of people have eaten the pie.
the number: needs a singular noun
the number of people has significantly decreased.
question regarding the editing passage: the number of girls drops steadily, then would it be a number of girls drop steadily

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Identify whether the subject(s) is singular/ are plural, ensure that the verb ( in this case) corresponds to the singularity of the subject.

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see if the word is describing a noun that comes before or after it, and thus should be an adjective.

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look out for the keywords that indicate the subject of the sentence (e.g. we, they, I, you) in order to derive the corresponding  pronoun (we - ourselves, they - themselves, I - myself, you - yourself)

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Check whether the subject is singular/plural, if the subject is singular, the verb has to be singular too

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Look out for the words before the preposition  and the subject after the preposition to check if it makes sense. (as sometimes the word before the preposition, the preposition and the word after the preposition can be a phrase)

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-identify subject in the sentence
-check if subject is singular/ plural
-identify which verb is describing the subject
-check the verb if it corresponds with the subject

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Check if the object mentioned is related to the subject/pronoun. If it is related, it is "the", but if it is general, like any car, it is "a".

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see if the subject is plural or singular, and that the verb follows it.

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Look for the words before and after, if the word before or after is a noun, the word should be an adjective.

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check if the word that comes before nouns/noun phrases is an adjective. For verbs, check if it is an adverb.

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See if the subject is an object or a person, if it is an object the adverb would be 'which', if it is a person, the adverb should be 'who'

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identify the subject

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look out for the order of actions and decide if the reaction is in contrast to the action, or following the action.

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who - is it referring to a person(and sometimes animals)?
which - is it referring to a non-living object
* animals with names : who
animals without names/in the wild: which
where - for locations

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see what the adverb is referring to, "who" for human and "which" for non-human beings.

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check the words that come before, if it is a noun, the word should be a adjective

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Be aware of the different functions of the different punctuation marks, and their intended purpose in the text. e.g semi colons are used to join two independent clauses that are closely related in thought. However, in this sentence, it was used to join one independent clause and one dependent clause. The correct punctuation mark should be the comma.

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Look out for the surrounding words of the preposition

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has the object been mentioned before in the passage --> the car that is owned by Mr Kirby
is it a general object? --> a car that people drive

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- check if the object has been mentioned previously in the passage

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Look at the subject and pronoun in mention in the sentence initially, and check if the pronoun is corresponding to it.

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difference between who and whom: whom should be between two nouns. that is the boy who ate my pie vs that is the boy whom pie i ate.

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Look at what the verb is referring to, identify whether it is singular or are plural

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determine the relationship of the sentences before and after the conjunction and check if they are contrasting or complementary to one another.

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-identify the subject which has already been stated in the passage before
-check if the subject is singular/ plural
-identify the deteminer
-check if it corresponds with the subject

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who vs whom vs whose:
who - followed by verb
whom - followed by subject
whose - followed by possession

which - usually used for non-humans

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https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/