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: 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.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: A Hyphen Is Not a Dash
This resource presents an explanation of the difference between a dash and a hyphen. Discusses the difference between an "n" and "m" dash and how to form each using a word processor.
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.
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: Notorious Confusables #3
Students read sentences looking at the two words in all caps, including spelling. They must decide what, if anything, needs to be changed, and select the correct answer. Links are also provided to a tutorial, quizzes, and "Guide to...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables #2
In this quiz, students read a sentence and type in the correct word choice, from the pair given, into the box provided. Links are provided for a tutorial, a list of quizzes, and "Guide to Grammar and Writing."
Grammar Tips
Grammar and Usage for the Non Expert: Using Commas With Dates
This grammar page begins with examples of how to punctuate dates, then provides the rules that govern those examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Numbers, Writing Lists
A lengthy page of rules regarding how to use numbers in writing, as well as how to write lists. Very helpful.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: History of the English Language
What do you know about the origins of the English language? Explore this resource to learn more about this topic. This resource features links to several helpful sites.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Hyphens
This site contains information regarding the correct use of the hyphen, along with examples. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Spelling Ie/ei Rules Exercises
A very good reference for spelling that outlines the rules for EI/IE and the exceptions, and provides exercises for understanding. L.11-12.2b Spelling
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: Punctuation
This site offers a list of links to punctuation exercises/quizzes including commas, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and italics.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Major Comma Uses Exercise 2
Take a self-scoring exercise on using commas with coordinate adjectives. Explanations and additional help are offered, as well.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Commonly Confused Words: Two, To, Too
This entry focuses on the commonly confused words two, to, and too including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to quizzes/exercises. L.11-12.2b Spelling
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Commonly Confused Words
This is a list of links to self-grading exercises for commonly confused and misused words.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Commonly Confused Words: Accept / Except Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz for the commonly confused words Accept and Except.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Spelling: Accept vs. Except
A good reference that defines, differentiates, and demonstrates the usage and purposes of these commonly misused English words.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Ellipses
This resource contains information regarding how and when to use ellipses, along with examples for each of the uses mentioned.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using "Good" and "Well" as Modifiers
This site provides an explanation for using "good" and "well" properly. A self test is given at the end of the article.
ACT360 Media
Writing Tips: Sentence Builder Punctuation
A list of the major elements of punctuation in the English language, including the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, dash, and hyphen. Provides a brief description and the...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Brief History of Plural Word S
All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn't always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German -- and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Noise
The words noise, nausea, and naval all stem from the same Latin root. Jessica Oreck divulges how their spellings and meanings diverged from the original naus. [2:02]