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Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Ellipsis Mark: Lesson 1

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A slideshow introduces an ellipsis and explaining its uses. Followed by a three-question quiz to check for understanding.
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer: The Ellipsis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Grammar Slammer at English Plus contains information regarding the correct use of the ellipsis. Several examples of the ellipsis in context are provided.
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Grammar Tips

Are Those Dots Just for Decoration? Ellipsis Usage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers a quick explanation of how to use the ellipsis correctly.
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Other

Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Omitting Words From Quotations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a quote when part of the quote has been removed and replaced with an ellipsis. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Ellipses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource contains information regarding the correct use of the ellipsis and examples.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: An Educational Companion to Eats, Shoots & Leaves [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Ellipses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource contains information regarding how and when to use ellipses, along with examples for each of the uses mentioned.
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Other

Spelling police.com: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.
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Able Media

Figures of Speech Syntax Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful exercise uses lines from Book II of Vergil's "Aeneid," to test mastery of rhetorical devices that pertain to syntax. Encourages practice of many skills.
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Other

Tameri: Guide for Writers: Punctuation Rules

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site provides the punctuation rules.
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Other

Ideabook.com: The Language of Type

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ideabook.com supplies keyboard instructions (PC & MAC) to create various symbols for mathematics, commerce, finance, weights & measures, punctuation, & reference.
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Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Other

Hoocher: Figures of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of figures of speech and their definitions with examples from literature.

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