Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Subject Verb Agreement Practice 2
Students can use this method of online practice to gain understanding of subject-verb agreement. Students select the correct verb to complete each sentence. Submit answers for instant feedback on responses.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Language Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a Daily Language Review for week one of a third grade year. The Daily Language Reviews focus on punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and sentence structure.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Structures Quiz
Capital Community College provides this 9 question quiz to test your knowledge of solid sentence writing. Each answer will be explained when you hit the "Submit application," button at the end of the quiz.
Other
Alpha Dictionary: Do I Have to Pay Syntax?
A humorous explanation of syntax and sentence structure, and how meaning in language is made up of so much more than words.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Miscellaneous Usage Errors Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting sentences with Miscellaneous Usage Errors.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Miscellaneous Usage Errors Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting sentences with Miscellaneous Usage Errors.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Miscellaneous Usage Errors Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting sentences with Miscellaneous Usage Errors.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: Building Phrases
This online grammar guide defines phrases, how they are different from clauses, and how to use them in sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Standard English Conventions
On the SAT Writing & Language Test, you will encounter questions that will ask you to interact with and revise passages in different ways. Standard English Conventions questions ask you to make sentences consistent with standard...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Case: Exercise 1
This site offers links to a interactive grammar exercises and printable handouts on the following topics: sentences, punctuation, irregular verbs, parallel structure, misplaced and dangling modifiers, pronouns, agreement, and word...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Recognizing Parallel Structure
A twenty-question quiz that asks students to choose which sentences are correct and which have errors in parallel structure.
Other
Grinnell College: The Function of Word Order and Parallel Structure
A fairly simple demonstration of the importance of word order in English sentences, with several examples. Also, a brief explanation of parallel structure, with examples. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Exercises
This page offers a list of links to exercises/quizzes on the following topics: Parts of Speech/Grammar; Prepositional and Verbal Phrases; Adjectival, Adverbial, Nominal Phrases, and Clauses; Punctuation, Sentence Structure, Usage,...
Other
Schoolhouse Rock: Interjections!
This site from Schoolhouse Rock provides the lyrics for the grammar rock song about interjections. This old song will help you remember what interjections are and how they work. It is taken from the old cartoon series, Schoolhouse Rock.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Full Stop Game (Beginner)
This reading game is designed for young readers to learn how and where to place periods at the end of sentences. They are to click on and drag a snail to where the period belongs; the snail spins and turns into a period.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Full Stop Game (Beginner)
This reading game is designed to teach young readers about how and where to place periods at the end of sentences. They are to click on and drag a snail to where the period belongs; the snail spins and turns into a period.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Does It Make Sense?
This reading game offers young readers the opportunity to correct a sentence and clean up trash on the seashore. They are to click and drag words in the correct order into a sentence so that it makes sense. Then they are to drag a piece...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Game: Does It Make Sense? Game 5
This reading game offers young readers two sentences; they are to click on the one that makes sense. Then they are to drag a piece of a rocket puzzle into place. When the puzzle is complete, the game is over.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sequences Before & After
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson asks the students to decide on the sentence order, then drag them into the boxes, deciding whether they describe before or after.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Independent and Dependent Clauses
This online writing lab offers definitions of the two main types of clauses as well as related concepts. It provides examples and offers instructions for avoiding common mistakes with clauses. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses