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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Hyphen in Compound Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using a hyphen when writing compound numbers. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Possessive Case of Nouns: Rules and Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page expains the rules for forming possessive nouns and provides examples.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Dashes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the rules for the use of dashes. Explains what a dash is, what it does, and the three formats of dashes (em, en, and the double hyphen). Examples are provided with the "dash" used in different contexts.
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
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Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Word Invasion

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Shoot the space craft with the correct part of speech.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: The First Word in a Direct Quote Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the rules for capitalizing direct quotes; if the quote is a sentence, capitalize it. If the quote is not a complete sentence, capitalize only what was capitalized in the original direct quote.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on conjunctions including what conjunctions are; the types of conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating; how to start sentences with conjunctions, examples of each of the above, and lists for each type...
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Handout
Other

Carson Newman Univ.: Punctuating Titles: Italics, Underlining, Quotation Marks

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn the rules for punctuating and capitalizing different types of titles in this PowerPoint.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 2: Their, There, and They're

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Complete these 20 sentences by typing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Basic Subordinating Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This English language tutorial explains subordinating conjunctions. Offers charts, examples, and links to self-tests.
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Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial illustrates when it's appropriate to use quotation marks in your writing.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Titles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics in titles.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Quotations and Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to learn the proper way to use quotations and commas. They will view information on the Internet and participate in online activities to help them master this concept.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Using Commas and Quotations

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly! [0:46]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Recognizing Run Ons and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Run-on sentences and comma splices happen when a writer isn't careful with commas. Let's see how you do!
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Italics, Underlines, and Quotes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to use italics, underlines, and quotes when writing titles of books, movies, songs, etc.
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Handout
English Plus+

Capitals in Titles of Things

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information about capitals in titles of things. Examples are given.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Exclamation Mark

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "exclamation mark" in English punctuation.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Apostrophe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "apostrophe" in English punctuation.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of "quotation marks" in English punctuation.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Hyphen

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "hyphen" in English punctuation.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Periods, Question Marks & Exclamation Marks

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Focus students' understanding of punctuation with this language arts skill-building site. Explore the usage of periods, questions marks and exclamation marks through this interactive activity that ask students to read a sentence and...
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These interactive grammar exercises cover sentence structure, punctuation, irregular verbs, parallel structure, misplaced and dangling modifiers, pronouns, agreement and word choice. Includes printable PDF worksheets (Adobe Reader is...