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Grammar Bytes: Standard Punctuation Power Point
Learn about using end marks, commas, semicolons, and apostrophes correctly. Practice identifying correct usage in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammar Bytes: Spelling Power Point
Learn about spelling rules and commonly misspelled words. Practice identifying correct spelling in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammar Bytes: Subject Verb Agreement Power Point
Learn about subject-verb agreement and practice identifying correct agreement in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammar Bytes: Tense Shift Power Point
Learn about using consistent verb tenses and practice identifying tense shifts in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammar Bytes: Verb Forms Power Point
Learn about regular and irregular verbs and practice identifying correct verb usage in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammar Bytes: Appropriate Words or Expressions in Context Power Point
Learn about using context clues to find the most appropriate word choice in a specific context. Practice identifying correct word choices in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Grammar Bytes: The Gerund
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a gerund in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Commas: Exercise 1
This is a 20-question quiz for comma usage; it includes an interactive quiz or a PDF downloadable/printable quiz. Students select the best answer to correct the problem in each sentence from the two options given.
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Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Confused and Misused Words and Phrases Power Point
A PowerPoint slide reviewing the proper usage of commonly confused and misused words. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
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Grammar Bytes: The Antecedent
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an antecedent in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Reference
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to recognize pronoun reference in the context of a sentence.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 1: Their, There, and They're
Complete these 20 sentences by choosing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 2: Their, There, and They're
Complete these 20 sentences by typing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 9: Whose and Who's
Test your understanding of the words "whose and "who's" by choosing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 10: Whose and Who's
Test your understanding of the words "whose and "who's" by typing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
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Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 13: Its and It's
Test your understanding of the words "its" and "it's" by choosing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 14: Its and It's
Test your understanding of the words "its" and "it's" by typing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas
This site offers links to five interactive practices using commas and accompanying handouts. Adobe Reader is required.
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Grammar Bytes: Linking Verb Tutorial
This is linking verb information page or printable handout. It offers links to terms, exercises, handouts, rules, etc.
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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.