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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Punctuation

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Punctuation is the point of this lesson. You'll learn to put the right dots and squiggles in the appropriate places in your writing. You'll review the conventions of punctuation used in academic English. Then you will apply what you...
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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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Washington State University

Washington State University: Parentheses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Washington State University is designed to inform the reader of the most common errors regarding the use of parentheses.
eBook
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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Brackets 8

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of brackets. It lists 5 uses for brackets and discusses each one separately with examples showing proper use. The 5 uses are as follows: an insertion, within parentheses, a change in a quotation,...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Brackets

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains the various types of brackets including parentheses (), square brackets [], curley brackets {}, and Chevron brackets . It also explains their uses and provides examples.
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Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De Signos De Puntuacion

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Which punctuation do we use? Here you will find seven different set of exercises so you can test your knowledge of when to use a period, a comma, a colon or parentheses.
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Other

Saint Michael's College: Dashes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples of the proper usage of dashes and parentheses.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Knowing the Basics of Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial for college students features help on verb agreement, the use of semicolons, sentence structure, and more.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Brackets: Lesson 7

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces brackets and how they are used. It is 7 of 15 in the series titled "Brackets."