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Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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Empire State College: Ellipses
This resource contains information regarding the correct use of the ellipsis and examples.
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Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing: Brainstorming
This resource explains brainstorming and gives a sample idea list generated from brainstorming.
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Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing: Clustering
Explains clustering and its advantages as a pre-writing exercise.
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Empire State College: Writer's Complex: Nouns and Their Verbs
Subject and verb agreement explained, including information on irregular verbs and "trick singular" subjects. Throughout this material, subjects are simple called nouns. Exercises included.
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Empire State College: Nouns and Their Pronouns
This resource provides a tutorial about nouns and pronouns.
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Empire State College: Exercise 4: Colons Quizzes & Tutorial
This resource quizzes on punctuation. Type in the correct punctuation. Then click on "submit answers" to see how you did.
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Empire State College: Exercise 3b: Advanced Commas
Type in the word that comes BEFORE the comma or semi-colon and then the comma or semi-colon. Click on "Submit Answers" to see how you did.
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Empire State College: Pronoun Reference to Nouns
Notes and examples explaining the importance of using pronouns to replace nouns only when the replacement is clear. A link to a practice exercise is provided.
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Empire State College: Exercise 2a: Agreement With Trick Singulars Basic
Complete five sentences by choosing the pronoun that agrees with the indefinite antecedent.
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Empire State College: Exercise 4: Noun Pronoun Agreement
Complete five sentences by choosing the correct pronoun.
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Empire State College: Exercise 5: Pronoun Agreement With Other Pronouns
Complete five sentences by choosing the correct pronoun.
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Empire State University: Freewriting
Explains freewriting and gives samples.
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Empire State College: Pronoun Agreement With "Trick Singular" Nouns and Pronouns
Notes and examples on pronoun agreement with indefinite nouns and pronouns. A link to a practice exercise is available.