Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise Plurals & Possessives
This site offers exercises in the sometimes confusing use of plurals of possessives. In each space write "C" if correct, or "I" if incorrect. Then click on "Submit Application" for the answers.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Noun, Adjective or Adverb and Present Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives ending in a past participle.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Hyphen in Compound Expression With Noun and Past Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Compound Nouns and Modifiers
An interactive exercise consisting of a paragraph with forty uses of compound nouns and modifiers. Students decide if each compound is written correctly or incorrectly.
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
Other
Western Grammar: Module 2: Advanced Sentence Structure
Online grammar textbook explaining sentence structure provides definitions of different types of subordinate clauses and exercises related to this topic. There is also information on phrases and other components of sentences.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)
Useful, extensive site for the Spanish-speaking ELL. This grammar section focuses on use of the articles "a/an" and plurals. A variety of interactive, self-correction exercises are provided. A "Teacher's Lounge," section is available...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Count and Non Count Nouns
Learn about count nouns--things you can count--and how they are used as parts of speech.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Revising Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students to review the different kinds of nouns, the function of pronouns, agreement between nouns and pronouns and verbs. Also demonstrates that, in using pronouns, it is clear to...
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Pronouns and Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This tutorial-quiz for pronoun usage features many examples of where pronouns fit in a sentence to achieve proper antecedent agreement.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Phrasal Verbs
In this quiz, students match phrasal verbs in one column with sentences that could contain those verbs in another column by typing the number of the sentence that fits the phrase in the box provided. Note that the phrasal verb could be...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Capitalization Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with capitalizing nouns. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial [2:21]
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Grammar: Plural Noun Forms Quiz
A brief list of rules to follow when writing the plural form of regular nouns followed by a quiz with fifteen questions. Each question asks students to choose the correct plural form of the noun provided. When finished, the student's...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 5th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on the grammar learned in the 5th grade including writing narrative paragraphs, homonyms, synonyms, and irregular plurals.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: William Strunk on the Possessive Singular
William Strunk Jr.'s "Elements of Style" on the creation of possessive singular nouns. Provided by Bartleby.com
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Direct and Indirect Objects
Tutorial on the proper usage of direct objects and indirect objects. Discusses difference between direct objects and object complements.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Subject Verb Agreement
Brief discussion of the subject-verb agreement. Includes examples and quizzes.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?
What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow students to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Articles
The definition of "articles" is followed by examples of definite, indefinite, omitted, and special-use articles. Further elaboration on article usage follows concerning countable and uncountable nouns, first vs. subsequent mention, and...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Grammar Logs #311
This page, which seems to be connected to the online "Guide to Grammar and Writing," provides a log of questions to the author of the online "Guide." The fourth question explains and provides an example of how other parts of speech...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Language Arts Challenge
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of: ABC order, nouns, plurals, irregular plurals, sentences and quotation marks.
English Zone
English Zone: Basic Possessives 1
This site offers a 10 question quiz in with fill-in-the blank statements and three choices of possessive noun spellings. Make your choice and find out the correct answer.