Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Exercises
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...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Case: Exercise 1
This site offers links to a interactive grammar exercises and printable handouts on the following topics: sentences, punctuation, irregular verbs, parallel structure, misplaced and dangling modifiers, pronouns, agreement, and word...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Recognizing Parallel Structure
A twenty-question quiz that asks students to choose which sentences are correct and which have errors in parallel structure.
Other
Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Page Layout
This website focuses on page layout and more specifically the length of paragraphs and lines as found in emails.
Other
Writing Den: Essay Builder
Site that gives an overview and general rules in how to write an essay. Sections include Parts of an Essay, How to Write an Essay, and Kinds of Essays.
Other
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Step by step guidelines to the process of essay writing. Basic, but helpful.
Other
Grinnell College: The Function of Word Order and Parallel Structure
A fairly simple demonstration of the importance of word order in English sentences, with several examples. Also, a brief explanation of parallel structure, with examples. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Better English Lessons
Business English Grammar Exercises: Conjunctions 2
This page consists of a simple exercise on conjunctions that asks students to fill in the blanks in complete sentences.
Other
Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
Other
Stage Door: Punctuation
This site contains examples of when and how to properly use punctuation marks, including: abbreviations, metric symbols, money, titles and corporate names.
Quia
Quia: Conjunctions
This is a 14-question, multiple choice quiz over conjunctions. Students read each statement paying attention to the punctuation around the blank and select the appropriate word.
Quia
Quia: Commas Coordinate Adjectives
Review what coordinate adjectives are, then test your understanding with a ten-question quiz.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Uses of the Semicolon and Colon
This writing lab site shows students how to correctly use semicolons and colons in punctuation.
English Club
English Club: Punctuation
This EnglishClub tutorial explains what punctuation marks are, what punctuation marks do, and why punctuation marks are important. Links to supplemental songs and videos about punctuation are also provided.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Sentences
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ten Minute Grammar Lessons Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lessons are intended to be used by English Language Arts teachers in grades 6-8 for a quick, whole-class review of the rules of comma usage.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Objective of this flipchart is to help students to begin to organize stories into paragraphs; and to begin to use paragraphing in presentation of dialogue in stories.
The Economist
The Economist: Economist Style Guide: Punctuation
This resource provides a brief discussion of each of the following types of punctuation: apostrophes, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, full-stops, inverted commas, question marks, and semi-colons. Examples are included for each type of...
Other
Grammar.com: Grammar
All the grammar you need to succeed in life - Explore the world of Grammar with FREE grammar & spell checkers, eBooks, articles, tutorials, vocabulary games and more! Check out the common grammatical mistakes, parts of speech,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs. Parallel sentences with comparisons or contrasts are included in the lesson. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Parallel Structure in Pairs." L.9-10.1a Parallelism
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Univ. Of Ottawa Hyper Grammar: Punctuation Errors
A ten-sentence punctuation quiz that tests whether or not students can correctly detect punctuation errors. Explanations and answers provided.
British Library
British Library: Virtual Reference Library
This site provides links to several on-line dictionaries. Students may desire to consult a few dictionary definitions of their focus term prior to beginning a definition essay.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 8th Grade Grammar
This article discusses the grammar usually learned in the 8th grade including more concise and clear writing, speaking, and thinking; how to clearly combine ideas; more comma rules, and parallel structure.