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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 6: Using Lay and Lie Correctly
Read about the proper usage of lay and lie and then practice by correctly completing twenty sentences. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Ex. 1: Recognizing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Read about misplaced modifiers, and then practice by if the modifiers in twenty sentences are placed correctly. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Ex 2: Misplaced/dangling Modifiers in a Long Passage
Read about misplaced modifiers, and then practice by if the modifiers in twenty sentences are placed correctly. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Ex. 3: Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Read about misplaced modifiers, and then practice by choosing the sentences that use modifiers correctly. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Ex. 4: Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Read about misplaced modifiers, and then practice by choosing the sentences that use modifiers correctly. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Rules for Finding and Fixing Apostrophe Errors
Rules and examples to demonstrate proper use of apostrophes to show possession, form contractions, and make irregular plurals.
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Grammar Bytes: Rules for Finding and Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Rules and examples to explain misplaced and dangling modifiers and how to avoid or correct them.
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Grammar Bytes: Rules for Finding and Fixing Pronoun Agreement Errors
Rules and examples to explain pronoun agreement and how to maintain agreement between pronouns and antecedents.
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Grammar Bytes: Rules for Finding and Fixing Pronoun Reference Errors
Rules and examples to explain common errors in pronoun reference and how to avoid vague or misused pronouns.
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Grammar Bytes: Rules for Finding and Fixing Errors in Parallel Structure
Rules and examples to explain parallel structure, how to maintain it, and how to fix errors in parallelism. Click on the links for at the top to get information on each section. L.9-10.1a Parallelism
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Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Recognizing Parallel Structure
Practice identifying errors in parallel structure by reading 20 sentences and determining if each contains an error in parallelism or not.
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Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Recognizing Parallel Structure
Practice using parallel structure by filling in the blanks in 20 sentences maintaining parallelism.
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Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Maintaining Parallel Structure
Practice using parallel structure by filling in the blanks in 20 sentences maintaining parallelism.
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Grammar Bytes: The Abstract Noun
Notes and examples of abstract and concrete nouns.
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Grammar Bytes: The Action Verb
Notes and examples of action verbs and how they are used within a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Adjective Clause
Notes and examples explaining how to recognize an adjective clause, how to punctuate it correctly, and how to avoid writing it as a sentence fragment.
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Grammar Bytes: The Adverb
Notes and examples explaining how to recognize an adverb, understand word choice with adverbs, form comparative and superlative adverbs, and realize that an adverb is not part of the verb.
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Grammar Bytes: The Adverb Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an adverb clause in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Auxiliary Verb
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an auxiliary verb in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Comma Splice
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a comma splice in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Common Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a common noun in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Concrete Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a concrete noun in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Conjunctive Adverb
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a conjunctive adverb in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: The Count Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a count noun in the context of a sentence.