Grammar Resources:

• Capital Community College has a fabulous Guide to Grammar and Writing site which features explanations and 170+ interactive activities and quizzes.
• The Perdue University Online Writing Lab also has a wealth of resources and some great handouts to further explain the concepts we are studying in class.
• The University of Houston-Victoria is another site that features interactive activities and quizzes which follow detailed explanations of grammar concepts.
• And Grammar Girl just rocks!
• Here's a very cool interactive quiz site on all things grammar!
• Great Source has a great online writing handbook to help you better understand all sorts common grammar problems and improve your overall writing. 

And as an added incentive to help you learn better grammar, you can earn extra credit for every grammar mistake you find in the world.  So pay attention to signs, read your teachers' handouts carefully, and every once in a while you will find some very funny goofs like this one:

THE PARTS OF SPEECH

Nouns and Pronouns:

• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Find an explanation and practice identifying types of nouns and pronouns on pages 3-5 of our Grammar Guide.
• Understanding Pronoun-Antecedent Disagreement.
• PRACTICE EXERCISES:
• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Answers to our noun and pronoun review exercises
• Identifying nouns
• Pronoun Practice 
• A very simple pronoun quiz
• Just for fun! Everything you never knew you wanted to know about pronouns and antecedents.

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Verbs and Verbals:

• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Explanation of types of verbs and verbals and how they are used are found on pages 6-7 of our Grammar Guide.
• More on identifying verbals.
• More than you need to know about tenses.
• PRACTICE EXERCISES:
• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Answers to our verb and verbal review exercises
• Take a look at these activities to help you practice identifying verbs and verbals.
• A bit more about subject-verb agreement:

• Understanding Active vs. Passive Voice
• A helpful handout
• A quiz to test your understanding
• Check out this video:

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Adjective and Adverbs

• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Explanation of types of adjectives and adverbs and how they are used are found on pages 8-9 of our Grammar Guide.
• Here's a fantastic explanation of how to located adjectives and adverbs from Perdue's Online Writing Lab.
• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Need the answers for the practice activities in our Grammar Guide? Here you go!  
• You might also want to take a look at this exercise - hint, hint!

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Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections

• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Explanation of types of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections and how they are used are found on pages 10-12 of our Grammar Guide.
• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• Check out this Grammar Bingo exercise we did in class 
• CONJUNCTIONS:
• More in depth on identifying coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions
• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE:  And here are the answers for our conjunction and preposition exercises. 
• PREPOSITIONS:
• Check your understanding of how to locate prepositions in a sentence by completing these exercises.
• Similar to the exercise in our grammar packet, use this exercise to check your understanding of prepositions.
• And here's a fantastic handout on identifying prepositions and prepositional phrases. 
• INTERJECTIONS:
• Another look at how to identify interjections

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Phrases and Clauses

• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Explanation of types of adjectives and adverbs and how they are used are found on pages 16-17 of our Grammar Guide.
• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Need the answers for the practice activities in our Grammar Guide? Here you go!  
• You might also want to take a look at this exercise
• Here's fun site that uses videos and interactive activities to help you better understand what a clause does.

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Sentence Types

• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: Explanation of sentence types are found on pages 21-22 of our Grammar Guide.
• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• More in depth on identifying sentence types
• IN OUR GRAMMAR GUIDE: And here are the answers for the sentence type practice exercises in our packet.  
• This practice quiz might help you better pick out sentence types. 
• And here's a fantastic handout on identifying sentence types. 

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UNDERSTANDING SENTENCE ERRORS

Fragments and Run-ons

• A explanation of how to fix fragments and run-on sentences can be found on pages 23-29 of our Grammar Guide.
• LEARN ABOUT FRAGMENTS, COMMA SPLICES, AND RUN-ON SENTENCES:

• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• Take some time to review the exercises on pages 24 and 28 of your Grammar Guide.  Find the answers HERE.
• HINT, HINT - You might want to take this ONLINE QUIZ!
• Here's some extra help: check out this page on fragments and this one on run-on sentences
• And this is an AWESOME personalized quiz site.  When you go to it for the first time, cut and paste this code into the site: b71ba949  
• MORE ON FRAGMENTS:
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• MORE ON RUN-ON SENTENCES:
• Do you know who Grammar Girl is? No, not Ms. Ward. She has a great episode on fixing run-on sentences.

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Comma Rules or COMMAS RULE!

• A explanation of how to comma problems can be found on pages 30-35 of our Grammar Guide.
• LEARN ABOUT THE COMMA RULES:

• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• Take some time to review the exercises on pages 34 and 35 of your Grammar Guide.  Find the answers HERE.

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Active vs. Passive Voice

• A explanation of how to fix fragments and run-on sentences can be found on pages 36-38 of our Grammar Guide.
• LEARN ABOUT ACTIVE VOICE:
•      Here's a good handout   to help you identify and fix problems with passive voice.

• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• Take some time to review the exercises on pages 37 and 38 of your Grammar Guide.  Find the answers HERE.

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Pronoun Problems

• A explanation of how to fix pronoun problems can be found on pages 39-42 of our Grammar Guide.
• LEARN ABOUT ACTIVE VOICE:

• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• Take some time to review the exercises on pages 40 and 41  of your Grammar Guide.  Find the answers HERE.
• More practice exercises shared with the presenting group can be found HERE.

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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

• A explanation of how to fix misplaced and dangling modifiers can be found on pages 47 and 48  of our Grammar Guide.
• LEARN ABOUT MODIFIER PROBLEMS:
• Here's a great handout explaining the differences between misplaced and dangling modifiers.

• PRACTICE  EXERCISES:
• Take some time to review the exercises on pages 49-51 of your Grammar Guide.  Find the answers HERE. 
• Understanding misplaced modifiers - try this online quiz.
• Grammar Girl has a great explanation of misplaced modifiers. Check it out HERE.

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