Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Apostrophes
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Apostrophe
This entry explains and provides examples of when and how to use the apostrophe to show ownership and to form the plural of letters, numbers, and signs used as words. It also explains when not to use apostrophes such as with the pronoun...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Apostrophe
This is a glossary entry for the term "Apostrophe" including a definition, examples, and a discussion of the differences between "apostrophe" and an "authorial instrusion."
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using the Possessive Case With Gerunds
This site gives a very clear explanation of a gerund and its noun qualities. This resource explains how to use the possessive case with a gerund. A quiz is provided to check understanding of this concept.
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...
Language Guide
Language Guide: La Posesion
A basic explanation of pronouns used to show possession. Examples are interactive audio files for modeling correct pronunciation. A link to a practice quiz is provided.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Possessive Pronoun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a possessive pronoun in the context of a sentence.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
Other
Punctuation Mark Rules: The Apostrophe
An informational site detailing some of the uses and misuses of the "apostrophe" in English punctuation. Also includes several examples.
Other
Illinois State U.: Punctuation Made Simple Apostrophes
What is an apostrophe and how is it used properly in punctuation? "Punctuation Made Simple," gives some concrete examples for apostrophe use.
Other
Illinois State University: Punctuation Made Simple
Brief tutorial on how to use some of the most confusing punctuation marks: colon, semicolon, comma, dash, and the apostrophe.
Other
Sandhills Community College: The Apostrophe
A valuable resource for learning about the uses of the apostrophe in English punctuation, including apostrophes with possessive nouns as well as contractions. Provides examples.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The King's English: Punctuation
This is the Punctuation chapter from H.W. Fowler's The King?s English, 2nd ed. (1908), which provides the rules of use for British English punctuation in the early 20th century. Many of these rules still apply.
Other
Project l.a.: Possessive Nouns
Designed for elementary students, this Internet viewable slide show explains how to form possessives, then provides practice sentences. At the end are links to an online practice quiz and a printable worksheet.
Able Media
Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
Other
Bellevue Community College: Apostrophes [Pdf]
Resource explains the three uses of the apostrophe and provides examples. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
English Club
English Club: Abbreviations Quiz
An interactive abbreviations assessment is found on this page. Acronym, initialism, and contraction concepts are included on this assessment.
English Club
English Club: What Is Punctuation?
This EnglishClub tutorial reviews the purposes for punctuation. Several examples of punctuation in the context of sentences.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Contraction Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with forming contractions. Practice with forming contractions from separate words is provided with through two different worksheets.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Noun Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about different types of nouns. Video lessons and reinforcement worksheets are provided for the following: singular nouns, plural nouns, plural possessive nouns, common nouns, and proper...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes in Contractions
This lesson explains the use of apostrophes to form contractions.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
U of Ottawa Hyper Grammar: Punctuation
Writing center tutorial for how to correctly use various types of punctuation, including the apostrophe in contractions, possessives, and pronouns.
Other
World Wide Words: Possessive Apostrophes
This site discusses the misuse of the apostrophe, such as using an apostrophe in a word which is a simple plural, now known as "greengrocer's apostrophe", the contraction it/it's, who's/whose, etc. A trend toward dropping the possessive...