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Sandhills Community College: Punctuation Guide
Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Colon and Semicolon Exercise
The first part of this site provides information and examples for the correct usage of the colon and the semicolon. The second part is an exercise. Click on "semi-colon" of "colon" to correctly punctuate the sentence. Then click on...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Colons
Learn how to identify and use the colon in a sentence!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using Semicolons and Commas
Identify when to use semicolons and commas in complex sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using Colons and Semicolons
Identify whether to use colons or semicolons in sentences!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Inflammatory bowel diseases are chronic relapsing disorders that cause inflammation within the gut, which damages the gut lining. The vast majority of inflammatory bowel disease is due to either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease....
MadSci Network
Why Is Our Intestine So Long?
A concise description of the functions of the large and small intestine along with information on the length of each.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Exercise 4: Colons Quizzes & Tutorial
This resource quizzes on punctuation. Type in the correct punctuation. Then click on "submit answers" to see how you did.
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Punctuation
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the each type of punctuation used when building a sentence.
Other
Punctuation Mark Rules: The Colon
A fairly comprehensive look at the uses and misuses of the grammatical element "the colon" in English punctuation. Includes information and several examples.
Other
Sandhills Community College: The Colon
A brief lesson on the uses of the colon in English punctuation. Includes examples and links for further information.
Quia
Quia: Digestive System Concentration Game
In this interactive site, match the parts of the digestive system with their function.
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De Signos De Puntuacion
Which punctuation do we use? Here you will find seven different set of exercises so you can test your knowledge of when to use a period, a comma, a colon or parentheses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Colons: Lesson 4
This lesson introduces colons and how they can be used. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Colons."
Northern Illinois University
Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center: Punctuation Quiz
A ten question punctuation quiz utilizing comma, colon, semicolon, and a period. If answered incorrectly, students are able to select a different answer. The percentage of accuracy from their first answer is calculated at the top.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Semicolon
The Guide to Grammar & Style provides this tutorial on two common uses for the semicolon: 1)to separate items in a list after a colon, and 2)to separate two independent clauses in one sentence.