Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase
Defines and provides examples of seven different types of phrases. The following types of phrases are included: absolute, appositive, gerund, infinitive, noun, participial, and prepositional. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
English Plus+
English Plus: Colons With Formal Appositives
The use of the colon with formal appositives is explained, with examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases
In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Identifying the Different Types of Fragments
Practice sentence skills by identifying the type of fragment in each short passage: subordinate clause, participle phrase, infinitive phrase, afterthought, lonely verb, or appositive.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Appositive
Information and examples about an appositive, what it is and how to use it correctly.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Dashes
This page focuses on the rules for the use of dashes. Explains what a dash is, what it does, and the three formats of dashes (em, en, and the double hyphen). Examples are provided with the "dash" used in different contexts.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification
This section of an online grammar guide provides a definition and examples of phrases, as well as information and an interactive exercise on distinguishing types of phrases and clauses. It offers links to various types of phrases and...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.
The Tongue Untied
University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Punctuation: Comma
This site features a list of eleven simple rules for comma usage. Come and sharpen your grammar skills when you visit this educational resource.
English Plus+
English Plus: Semicolons and Colons
Rules for using semicolons and colons. Examples include semicolons with clauses, semicolons with lists, colons with quotes, colons with lists, and colons with appositives. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause