Grammar and Writing Tips

GRAMMAR and WRITING WEBSITES

Below are some suggested URL sites that have good grammar explanations and exercises, where the software gives you immediate feedback and sometimes explanations of what is going on at the level of your sentence.  Ablongman.com, owl, commnet, georgiasouthern and wikipedia often address many other goals as well as the ones noted.

The oatmean.com is a good site for general grammar advice [there, their, they’re]. However, new sites are added to the net every day, so do a Google or Bing search and see if you can’t find even better places to study and practise your writing goals.

Proofreading checklist and symbols (Mrs. Yarr)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/writingc/resources

http://impact-english.com/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/search.php

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/

http://dowlingcentral.com/ (some games)

http://www.myenglishteacher.net/

http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/homepage.html

www.chompchomp.com

www.englishforeveryone.org

Integrating Quotes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0F1rOnFUY

https://www.schoology.com/resources/public/14364199/profile

http://www.huffenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/how-to-integrate-quotations.doc

http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/tlc/tipsheets/writing/integrating-quotes.pdf

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/quotations

Faulty Coordination:

http://www.boundless.com/writing/academic-writing/making-connections-within-your-paper/avoiding-repetition/

http://prezi.com/0r3mhk5lhtdu/faulty-coordination/

http://noiaybinhyen.jimdo.com/my-collection/basic-sentence-faults/subordination-and-coordination/

Semi-Colons:

http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/writing_tip_semicolon.htm (quiz)

Colons:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_43.htm

Verb Tense Shift:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090417074708AAHjTbM

http://www.penandpage.com/EngMenu/gramverb.htm

http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/agreement_sv_ex2.htm

Parallelism/Cohesion:

http://www.writingcemtre.uottowa.ca/hypergrammar/pronref.html

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing/Handouts/paragraph.html

http://jjc.jjay.cuny.edu/erc/writing/structure/ex7_n1edit.php

Wordiness:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-ways-to-reduce-wordiness-in-your-writing/525 http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/praclutterex.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/concise.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/6/9

Fragments/Run-ons:

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Run-On-Sentences.htm

http://www.quia.com/pop/37752.html?AP_rand=576575563

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence

http://ctl.utsc.utoronto.ca/twc/sites/default/files/RunonSentences.pdf

http://www.mun.ca/writingcentre/docs/OnLineSentenceFragments.pdf

http://ctl.utsc.utoronto.ca/twc/sites/default/files/RunonSentences.pdf>

http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence

http://www.mun.ca/writingcentre/docs/OnLineSentenceFragments.pdf

Redundancy:

http://www.gradesaver.com/writing-help/removing-redundancy-writing-clearly-and-concisely/

http://www.scholastic.com/scopemagazine/PDFs/SCOPE-102212-LazyEditor-Redundancy.pdf

http://www.gradesaver.com/writing-help/removing-redundancy-writing-clearly-and-concisely/

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/concise.htm

http://writetightsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/NeedlessRepetitionExercise_Answers

Writing a Bibliography:

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_mla_format_examples.shtml

Writing a Conclusion

http://www.education.com/study-help/article/writing-strong-conclusion/

Noun-Pronoun Agreement

http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/784.htm

http://www.towson.edu/ows/proref.htm

http://uwf.edu/writelab/test/pronoun _ reference_and_antecedent_agreement_practice_test.htm

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/noun_pronoun_agreement/quiz2243.html

Colloquialisms:

http://madproofingskillz.tumblr.com/post/35057318236/stay-formal-avoid-colloquial-language

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshow.php?title=colloquialcolloquialisms&quesnum

Composition

http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/quotes.htm

http://ocw.usu.edu/english/intermediate-writing/english-2010/-2010/concrete-images.html

Grammar

www.chompchomp.com/presentations/wordchoice.ppt

http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/Word-Choice.htm

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/1/

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/gram_parallelism.html

http://grammar.about.com/od/tests/a/Exercise-In-Writing-With-Specific-Details.htm

Creative Writing

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/showing

http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/specific.htm