Resources for Practicing Grammar Competencies
Apostrophes
Online activity and examples
Games for apostrophe use: 1st game is not appropriate for high school students; 2nd game is good for middle school or English 9 students.
Another good apostrophe resource
Spelling of words that are commonly misspelled (especially homophones/homonyms)
1. Good resource for middle school and English 9 students
2. List of common mistakes from OWL at Perdue
Titles of complete works vs. partial works
1. A good explanation of the rules. An activity can also be printed out.
2. An online exercise
Quotations in speech
For middle school & remediation for 9th graders
The Sentence and All its Parts
Basic Sentence Stuff
Capitalization & Punctuation within a Sentence
Commas
Conjunctions 1 (for middle school and English 9)
Conjunctions 2 (for middle school and English 9)
Fragments
Parallel Structure
1. An explanation with short exercise at the end
2. A Grammar Bytes exercise
Run-ons (“Fused Sentences”) and Comma Splices
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Subject-Verb Agreement
Sentence Combining
Information to help you do it is first; scroll to the bottom for 3 interactive quizzes. Appropriate for Grade 9/9H, Grade 10)
Other Stuff
Glossary of Grammar Terms
Another good site to explore.
Handouts on various topics to print out
http://www.youblisher.com/p/60382-Perfect-Punctuation/
http://isu.indstate.edu/writing/handouts/handouts.html
Online activity and examples
Games for apostrophe use: 1st game is not appropriate for high school students; 2nd game is good for middle school or English 9 students.
Another good apostrophe resource
Spelling of words that are commonly misspelled (especially homophones/homonyms)
1. Good resource for middle school and English 9 students
2. List of common mistakes from OWL at Perdue
Titles of complete works vs. partial works
1. A good explanation of the rules. An activity can also be printed out.
2. An online exercise
Quotations in speech
For middle school & remediation for 9th graders
The Sentence and All its Parts
Basic Sentence Stuff
Capitalization & Punctuation within a Sentence
Commas
Conjunctions 1 (for middle school and English 9)
Conjunctions 2 (for middle school and English 9)
Fragments
Parallel Structure
1. An explanation with short exercise at the end
2. A Grammar Bytes exercise
Run-ons (“Fused Sentences”) and Comma Splices
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Subject-Verb Agreement
Sentence Combining
Information to help you do it is first; scroll to the bottom for 3 interactive quizzes. Appropriate for Grade 9/9H, Grade 10)
Other Stuff
Glossary of Grammar Terms
Another good site to explore.
Handouts on various topics to print out
http://www.youblisher.com/p/60382-Perfect-Punctuation/
http://isu.indstate.edu/writing/handouts/handouts.html
