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Sandhills Community College: Punctuation Guide
Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Numbers
Straightforward tutorial explaining the rules about numbers in writing.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Possessives
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of apostrophes when using both singular and plural. It also provides a practice exercise.
Get It Write
Get It Write: En Dashes and Em Dashes
Find out the correct usage of hyphens, em dashes, and en dashes with this clear explanation. A short quiz checks your understanding.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Regarding "Irregardless"
In addition to addressing the misuse of "irregardless" for "regardless," there's a lengthy discussion about the meaning of negative prefixes, as well as other prefixes that can be confusing. A great reference.
Get It Write
Get It Write: One Space of Two After Periods? (And Other Typography Issues)
Read some rules about typography that have changed because of the use of word processing rather than typewriters. This tutorial explains spacing after all punctuation, the use of em dashes and en dashes, and the use of italics.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Hyphenated Adjectives
Find out the rules for using hyphens with adjectives. A clear explanation and several examples are followed by a short quiz to check your understanding.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Anymore and Everyday
Knowing the difference between the use of words adverbially and adjectivally is essentia, especially when using "anymore" and "any more" and "everyday" and "every day." A very good explanation of the usage is given along with many...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Cyberlanguage
Find out what various style manuals recommend in the way cyberlanguage is written.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: How to Use "Alike" and "Same" Correctly
An explanation with examples of using the words "alike" and "same" correctly in sentences.
Other
The Punctuation Guide: Commas in Dates
Gives a clear explanation, with examples, about how and when to use commas when writing dates.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Run on Sentences
Examples show how to avoid creating a run-on sentence in your writing.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Semi Colons
Comprehensive tutorial illustrates how to use semi-colons properly.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Spelling Rules and Irregular Words
This site discusses exceptions to spelling rule, words that don't fit the typical letter-sound correspondence rules. It provides links to lists of frequently used words such as the Dolch list and 1,000 Most Frequent Words in Middle and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Origins & Meanings of Foreign Words & Phrases: English Ii Reading
In this lesson, you will be introduced to selective lists of words. These words can help enrich your language, deepen your understanding of what you read, and broaden your sense of the world.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Grammar Rules
This is a grammar handbook with links to grammar rules for the parts of speech, punctuation marks, mechanics, sentence style and clarity, composition, academic writing, organization and development, revising and editing, and research and...
Vancouver Island University
Malaspina: Punctuating Quotations Exercise
Passage B - Rewrite this passage in order to improve the grammar, punctuation, parallelism, and format for titles. Passage C - Rewrite this passage in order to improve the style and correct quotation mark errors.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Strunk's Elements of Style: Words and Expressions Commonly Misused
Common misused words are defined. Examples of how to use them correctly are provided. Some examples are "all right" to "would", "as good or better than", and "as to whether."
Vocabulary.com
Words Plagued by Unusual Silent Letters
This site contains a list of 20 words with commonly misspelled words that have silent letters. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 11.1: Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that demonstrate how to identify and correctly use commas with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and introductory...
Harvard University
Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
English Club
English Club: Punctuation Styles
This EnglishClub tutorial expounds upon the differences in punctuations styles that exist among individual writers, British and American authors, and publishers.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Confused and Unfamiliar Words
This article provides tips for teaching confused and unfamiliar words to students. These include being familiar with the words, using pictures to visualize the words, and practicing.