Savvas Learning
Pearson Longman: Sentence Resources for Writers: Overview of Punctuation
A grammar assessment for the high school student to practice recognizing and writing sentences with correct word use, punctuation and mechanics. Includes ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Punctuation
A learning module that teaches students about the rules of punctuation in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Terminal Punctuation, The Common Comma, Apostrophes and Quotation Marks, Semicolons, and Your Turn.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Colon
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using the colon, including two forms of presentations as well as a quiz where students can apply their understanding of colon usage.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Ellipsis
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using the ellipsis. A quiz link is provided.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Bracket
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using brackets.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Slash or Virgule
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using a slash, also called a virgule, slant or solidus.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage
This punctuation quiz requires the student to insert necessary commas before comparing his or her version to the possible answers.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Rules for Comma Usage
Here's a site from the Capital Community College to show the correct and incorrect way to use or not use commas.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Introductory Phrases
This online quiz from the Capital Community College is tightly focused on commas and introductory phrases. Ten questions ask the reader to insert commas where necessary, then check the sentence against the website's version. Vocabulary...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Commas Fill in the Blank
This challenging comma quiz uses an actual essay and requires the user to decide whether each blank requires a comma or not.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Comma Splices 2
Another interactive online quiz teaching about and correcting the use of comma splices in writing. A good tool for students to improve their writing skills.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Colon
What is a colon and how is it used properly in your writing? This site gives examples of proper usage.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Punctuation
This site features a punctuation practice exercise. Students have an opportunity to test their punctuation knowledge when they visit this interactive resource.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
It this interactive punctuation quiz, students read sentences or passages and insert the necessary punctuation and capitalization. After each answer, students select "Grammar's Version" to reveal the corrected passage and an explanation....
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
In this interactive grammar quiz, students are asked to read a paragraph and insert the correct punctuation, capitalization, and corrected spellings. When finished, they click on "Grammar's Version" for the corrected paragraph with...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Review of Punctuation
Students will choose which, if any, of a list of sentences is punctuated correctly or incorrectly. When students select an answer, a pop-up box appears with feedback including the answer and explanation. Java is required.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Using Quotation Marks
This site offers a 10 question quiz in which students read a sentence or sentences and are asked to insert necessary punctuation --commas and quotation marks-- and capitalization. After completing each question or at the end, they click...
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Quotation Marks
In this grammar tutorial, students edit the sentences by placing the quotation marks where they are appropriate. Click "submit" to check work.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Colons: Rules for Use
This resource discusses four uses of the colon: to signal a list, to signal and emphasize a comment or explanation that follows, to show that a longer quotation is coming, and after a greeting in a business letter. L.9-10.2b Colons
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Semi Colons
This resource discusses two uses of the semicolon and provides examples for each use.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Colon
This entry focuses on the when and how to use a colon including to formally introduce a list, between two independent clauses, before a formal appositive, and between hour and minute / chapter and verse. It includes detailed examples of...