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Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
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Grammarly Blog: Verb Tense Consistency: Grammar Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the need for verb tense consistency on a clause level. It is important to maintain the same verb tense in a clause; if the time changes, use a second sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Future Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This page explains what future perfect continuous (progressive) tense means and how it is formed; examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the colon and provides links to five sets of rules for colon use and misuse with appropriate examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Colon Use

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the rules for using a colon in a series and to separate one idea from another and offers examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Colon Between Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the use of a colon between two closely related independent clauses in a sentence when the emphasis is on the second clause. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Colon:independent Clause & List, Quote, Appositive, Idea

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the use of a colon when an independent clause is followed by a closely-related dependent clause that clarifies or gives more information about the independent clause. Examples are show with lists, quotes, appositives,...
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Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Possessive Pronouns: Rules and Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of possessive pronouns and how they are used in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: When Should I Spell Out Numbers?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on when to write figures and numbers in writing; it provides the rules for both general writing and for technical, scientific, and complex writing. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Closed Compound Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains closed compound words, one word compounds formed by two words, and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Using the Future Continuous Tense

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains what future continuous (progressive) tense means and how it is formed and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: What Is a Generic Noun?

For Students 6th - 8th
This page discusses generic nouns, non-specific nouns such as in "a gang of boys," as compared to collective nouns such as "a pride of lions." Several examples of generic noun usage are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...
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Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: The First Word in a Direct Quote Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the rules for capitalizing direct quotes; if the quote is a sentence, capitalize it. If the quote is not a complete sentence, capitalize only what was capitalized in the original direct quote.
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Grammarly Handbook: Evaluating Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need for evaluating resources and offers links to rules for evaluating primary, secondary, or tertiary resources and determining if resources are good or bad.
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Grammarly Blog: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on conjunctions including what conjunctions are; the types of conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating; how to start sentences with conjunctions, examples of each of the above, and lists for each type...
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Grammarly Handbook: Cliches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuse on cliches and explains why they should not be used in formal writing; it provides examples of other words to get the point across more clearly.