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Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Standard Punctuation Power Point
Learn about using end marks, commas, semicolons, and apostrophes correctly. Practice identifying correct usage in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Punctuation
An explanation of the importance of punctuation and links to specific information on several different types of punctuation marks.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Basic Elements of English
Sections include parts of speech, sentence elements, punctuation, and word use. Also includes a "brief explanations of common writing errors." The tutorials also include interactive quizzes to check your understanding.
Quia
Quia: Capitalization: Rags to Riches
This is a capitalization and punctuation game for early readers. Students win gold stars for selecting the correct answers. The game is available in Java or HTML versions.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Capitalization at the Beginning of a Sentence
This page explains the beginning letter of each sentence is always capitalized, even in direct quotes in the middle of sentences. Examples are provided.
English Club
English Club: What Is Punctuation?
This EnglishClub tutorial reviews the purposes for punctuation. Several examples of punctuation in the context of sentences.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Everyday vs. Every Day
This page provides the rules for the proper use of the words "everyday" and "every day."
English Club
English Club: Spelling Rules
This EnglishClub tutorial provides rules for spelling words. Spellings related to using -ei-, -ie-, -ible, -able, -er, -est, -ed, -ing, -ly, and -s are featured. These are followed by a link to a large set of spelling quizzes.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Missing Comma Before a Question Tag
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a question tag at the end of a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Spelling Words With Ei and Ie
The page focuses on the rules and examples for spelling words with "ei" and "ie" including the "I Before E Except After C" rule and the "I before E, Except after C, unless it sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh" rule. L.9-10.2c Spelling
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Capitalization
This page reminds the writer to follow capitalization rules including for beginning of sentences, proper nouns, and titles of people and works.
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Grammarly Blog: Run on Sentences
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a complex sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Words, Letters, Numbers Gram. Rules
An explanation and examples underlining/italicizing words, letters, and numbers when they refer to themselves.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Period
Rules and examples for using a period correctly at the end of a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Question Mark
Rules and examples for using question marks correctly in sentences.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: End of Sentence Punctuation
This page discusses end of sentence punctuation with links to periods, exclamation marks, and question marks.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
The slideshow lesson focuses on capitalization including why words are capitalized, general rules for capitalization, and rules and examples for capitalizing titles and proper nouns.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
Six slides introducing the rules of using capitalization correctly within sentences. Capitalization rules for sentences with colons and semicolons are also included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
This video lesson focuses on the use of capital letters in sentences including the following: after a colon, after a semicolon, titles, and lower case proper nouns at the beginning of sentences (eg. iPod). She also offers a memory trick...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Titles
This slideshow provides the reasons and rules for capitalizing titles and shows examples.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Style Guide: Capitalization
A comprehensive guide to editorial style for print and electronic media. Students and teachers can gain a better grasp of the rules of capitalization from this resource.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Grammar and Punctuation
Discover more about grammar and punctuation when you check out this comprehensive site. This site gives a tutorial on correct grammar usage.