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Grammar and Punctuation Practice
(Dr. Charles Darling – Capital Community College)
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Grammar and Punctuation Practice
The following categories of grammar, punctuation, and usage are
provided for Internet students by Dr. Charles Darling of Capital
Community College.
Each Quiz link below will take you to a website with an interactive grammar,
punctuation, or usage quiz that will grade your answers immediately after
you take the quiz.
Each Instruction link below will take you to a website with instructions on
the aspect of grammar, punctuation, or usage tested by the quiz.
Note: Each Quiz or Instruction link will open in a new window.
Basic Sentence Parts
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Instruction | Quiz | Identifying Sentence Parts
Instruction | Quiz | Sentence Parts: Basic
Instruction | Quiz | Body Parts: Quiz One
Instruction | Quiz | Body Parts: Quiz Two
Instruction | Quiz | Body Parts: Quiz Three
Instruction | Quiz | Body Parts: Quiz Four
Instruction | Quiz | Recognizing Nouns. Note: This section includes plural
and possessive forms of nouns, count and non-count nouns, and
compound nouns (and adjectives).
8. Instruction | Quiz | Exercise in Naming Nouns
9. Instruction | Count and Non-Count Nouns
10. Instruction | Quiz | Nouns (Crossword)
11. Instruction | Quiz | Identifying Simple & Compound Subjects
12. Instruction | Quiz | Using Articles
13. Instruction | Quiz | Using Articles II
14. Instruction | Articles and Determiners
15. Instruction | Quiz | Basic Quiz on Quantifiers
16. Instruction | Quiz | Quantifiers
17. Instruction | Quiz | Recognizing Adjectives
18. Instruction | Quiz | Adjective Order
19. Instruction | Adjectives
20. Instruction | Adverbs
21. Instruction | Quiz | Adverb Order
22. Instruction | Quiz | Recognizing Prepositions
23. Instruction | Quiz | Prepositions
24. Instruction | Quiz | Prepositions at Crosswords
25. Instruction | Quiz | Prepositions at Crosswords II
26. Instruction | Quiz | Prepositions at Crosswords III
Verbs and Verbals
27. Instruction | Quiz | Recognizing Verbs & Verb Strings
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Quiz | Recognizing Verbs & Verb Strings II
Quiz | Identifying Verb Tenses
Quiz | Verb Tense and Sentence Order
Subject-Verb Agreement
Quiz | Subject-Verb Agreement II
Quiz | Subject-Verb Agreement III
Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement I
Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement II
Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement III
Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement IV
Quiz | Agreement Problems
Quiz | Agreement Problems II
Quiz | Exercise in Verb Tense Consistency
Consistency in Tense and Pronouns
Irregular Verbs
Quiz | Irregular Verbs II
Quiz | Irregular Verbs III
Quiz | Irregular Verbs (Crossword)
Using the Subjunctive
Quiz | Conditional Verb Forms
Modal Auxiliaries
Quiz | Phrasal Verbs
Quiz | Phrasal Verbs II
Quiz | Recognizing and Changing Passive Constructions
Practice: Test on -s Word Endings II
Practice: Test on -s Word Endings III
Quiz | Practice: Test on Verb Endings
Practice: Final -ed Verb Endings II
Quiz | Practice: Final -ed Verb Endings III
Quiz | Gerunds and Infinitives
Quiz | Gerunds and Infinitives II
Clauses and Phrases
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Quiz | Independent Clauses
Independent Clauses II
Quiz | Ingredients of Independent Clauses
Quiz | Dependent Clause Functions
Quiz | Dependent Clauses
Types of Sentences
Quiz | Recognizing Phrase Functions
Quiz | Verbal (and other) Phrases
Structural Flaws
67. Instruction | Quiz | Repairing Sentence Fragments
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Fragments and Run-on Sentences
Practice: Sentence Fragments
Practice: Sentence Fragments II
Practice: Sentence Fragments III
Quiz | Fragments & Types of Sentences
Quiz | Avoiding Comma Splices
Quiz | Avoiding Comma Splices II
Quiz | Repairing Run-on Sentences
| Practice: Run-on Sentences
Practice: Run-on Sentences II
Modifier Placement
Quiz | Modifier Placement II
Punctuation and Basic Mechanics
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Quiz | Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions
Quiz | Commas with Introductory Elements
Quiz | Commas: Fill-in-the-blanks
Quiz | Comma Usage
Quiz | Punctuation: Fill-in-the-blanks
Punctuation
Quiz | Punctuation II
Quiz | Punctuation III
Quiz | Punctuation IV
Quiz | Punctuation V
Quiz | Apostrophes
Quiz | Colons
Quiz | Quotation Marks
Quiz | Basic Mechanics
Compound Nouns and Modifiers
Capitalization Quiz
Plurals and Possessives
Quiz | Irregular Plurals and Non-Count Nouns
Possessives & Irregular Plurals
Practice: -s Word Endings
Pronoun Usage
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Pronoun Usage
Quiz | Pronoun Usage II
Quiz | Pronoun Usage III
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Quiz | Who II
Which, That and Who
Practice: Pronouns
Practice: Pronouns II
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| Sentence-Combining Skills I
| Sentence-Combining Skills II
| Sentence-Combining Skills III
| Writing Concise Sentences
| Eliminating Wordiness
| Rewriting Bloated Sentences
| Coherence and Transitions
| Parallel Structures
Quiz | Parallel Structures II
Quiz | Parallelism III
Quiz | Illogical Comparisons & Mixed Constructions
Quiz | Variety in Modifier Placement
Quiz | Variety in Subject Placement
Quiz | Gender Neutral Language
Notorious Confusables
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Instruction | Quiz | Notorious Confusables I (abhorrent/aberrant
through indeterminate/indeterminable)
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Instruction | Notorious Confusables II (indite/indict through
you're/your)
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Instruction | Quiz | Except/Accept and Affect/Effect
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