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Grammarly Blog: Verb Tenses: Grammar Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the three major verb tenses: past, present, and future with examples. It also offers links to information about each of these as well as the perfect, continuous, and perfect continuous of each.
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Grammarly Blog: All About Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Types of transition words and how they can be used to make writing more fluid.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Reference guide to key grammatical terms and issues. Also gives additional reading suggestions and lists online resources.
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Grammarly Handbook: Transitions and Transitional Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to use transition words and transitional devices to connect sentences, paragraphs, and sections in an essay.
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Grammarly Handbook: Planning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips for planning an essay. Links to additional information on the topics Assess the Situation, Think about Writing Ideas, How to Write a Thesis Statement, and How to Write an Outline are provided.
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Grammarly Handbook: Writing a Draft

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on writing a first draft including getting all the information down in an organized manner without worrying about the grammar and mechanics. It discusses the advantages of using word processing programs which make it...
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Grammarly Handbook: Writing Concisely

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page compares wordy writing to a art gallery cluttered with a mixture of great works and poor attempts making it hard to see the great works. Remove the clutter, write concisely so the reader gets the point of the paper. It offers...
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Grammarly Handbook: Patterns of Organization for Academic Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of six different ways to organize a text with links to more information for each.
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Grammarly Handbook: What Are Adverbs?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This short article briefly explains the purpose of adverbs, how to identify them, and provides an example.
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Grammarly Handbook: Comma Before And

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the use of a comma before the word "and." It explains using a comma between items in a series with the use of "and" and before "and" when it is in front of an independent clause. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Handbook: Brackets

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains the various types of brackets including parentheses (), square brackets [], curley brackets {}, and Chevron brackets . It also explains their uses and provides examples.
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Grammarly Handbook: Parallelism With Gerunds and Infinitives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with gerunds and infinitives.
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Grammarly Handbook: Parallelism: Lists After a Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to use parallel structure in lists.
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Grammarly Handbook: Develop the Point

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on organizing ideas in an essay.
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Grammarly Handbook: Visuals: Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...
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Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Handbook: Appropriate Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the choice of vocabulary in a paper: Is it clear and appropriate for the audience? Does the vocabulary fit the subject matter? W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
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Grammarly Handbook: Informalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of style techniques (with examples) used to create an informal tone in a written piece.
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Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.
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Grammarly Handbook: Mla (Modern Language Association)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes and examples for formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in MLA Style.
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Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
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Grammarly Handbook: Organization and Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of five focuses in the areas of organization and development. Links to each focus area are provided.