This lesson focuses on appositives including the definition and the two purposes: to rename a noun or to add extra description. It provides 5 practice sentences for students to identify the appositives with answers and explanation to...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves illustrates the necessity of correct punctuation in order to convey intended meaning. Punctuation rules are stated here in a concise manner with accompanying exercises/keys.

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.

This activity was developed to be used in conjunction with the NUMB3RS episode "Undercurrent," in which a victim is found with a Chinese hexagram tattoo. Students will learn about trigrams and hexagrams, Chinese characters made from...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Red Riding-Hood: Picture Book by Harrison Weir (1865), a collection of illustrated fairy tales and nursery rhymes including the following: "Little Red...

This area is designed for students learning about Silk Road people, culture, history, art, religion and language. Nowadays, we know much about life on the Silk Road thanks to archaeologists and explorers. The objects people leave behind...

During the 100 meter dash in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Florence Griffth-Joyner was timed at 0.91 seconds for 10 meters. At that speed, could she pass a car traveling 15 miles per hour in a school zone?

Dashes, loops, wiggles, and blanks: this article investigates the visual oddities of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.

The University of Ottawa developed this site about quotation mark usage. Discusses using quotation marks to set off dialogue, titles, short works, and special terms. Also instructs learners in using quotation marks with other forms of...

The following simulation provides an interaction with electron configurations.

The proper use of quotation marks is explained and shown with examples in this excerpt from H.W. Fowler's The King?s English, 2nd ed. (1908), a writing primer used in the early 20th century.

This website provides information about how to use separation punctuation. There is a video clip [0:47] on why periods go inside quotation marks, and a second video clip [1:07] showing the effects of using too many exclamation points.

This is a good starting point for those looking for information and resources on Stephen Crane. Includes a full-texts, a bibliography, responses to queries and FAQs, and several links for further Internet research on Crane.

This lesson focuses on the roles of all of the punctuation marks; it provides a video, small practices in various sections, and a punctuation self-check.

This site provides the punctuation rules.

Read a brief account of the life of American sprinter Tommie Smith who held the world record for the 200-metre dash with turn and for the straightaway 200-metre dash.

[Free Registration/Login Required] One of the most important code systems invented is the internationally-recognized Morse code, which matches dots and dashes to letters of the alphabet. This revolutionized communication by sending...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Ralph Metcalfe, an American sprinter and member of the American 4 x 100-meter relay team that won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. At his peak, in 1934-35, he was called...

A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.

This grammar tutorial for college students features help on verb agreement, the use of semicolons, sentence structure, and more.

Punctuation indicates how one should read any sentence. Commas, for example, indicate when a reader should take a brief pause, either for emphasis or for comprehension. [0:40]

This site from Grammar Slammer offers links to each of the uses for hyphens where correct and incorrect examples are provided for each. L.11-12.2a Hyphens

A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the each type of punctuation used when building a sentence.

Ideabook.com supplies keyboard instructions (PC & MAC) to create various symbols for mathematics, commerce, finance, weights & measures, punctuation, & reference.