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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Subject Verb Agreement
This is a self-grading quiz on subject-verb agreement. Students read an article with boxes after punctuation marks, and decide if the mark should be removed.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Index to the Guide to Grammar and Writing
Click on any of the hundreds of grammar terms provided in this index in order to see definitions, explanations, and examples of each term. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences
Practice rewriting each of these twelve sentences in a more clear and concise manner. Check each sentence against the answer provided to see how well they match up.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Dash
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules for using the dash.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Clauses: The Essential Building Blocks
Online PowerPoint writing tutorial on the subject of clauses in sentences. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Garden of Phrases
This tutorial provides rules, explanations, and examples for noun phrases, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, absolute phrases, gerund phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Also includes an interactive quiz....
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Consistency of Tense and Pronoun
Brief instruction on maintaining pronoun and verb tense consistency. Links to additional help and quiz are included.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...