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Companion Web Sites
for Texts |
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ON GRAMMAR 5 Select a unit under Student
Resources. |
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Exercise Central Exercise Central
goes with the textbook Real Writing with
Readings and covers editing and grammar concerns. |
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NorthStar Reading and Writing
This site accompanies
NorthStar Reading and Writing, Advanced level. Click
Student Resources for Writing Style Checklists,
Vocabulary Bank, and Internet
Activities. |
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McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center In
the black frame on the left, take Diagnostic A, Diagnostic B,
and Diagnostic C to evaluate your own grammar
needs. Complete Table of Contents for Langan's College Writing
SKills. |
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Instructor Ann
Thistlethwaite's Page for ESL 91 |
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Comprehensive
Grammar Sites |
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The Edit Grid from San Jose Writes A writing and
grammar correction guide for ESL Writers. |
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Interactive Quizzes Practice with quizzes on
basic sentence parts, verbs and verbals, clauses and phrases,
structural flaws, punctuation and basic mechanics, pronoun usage,
etc. |
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The
Basic Elements of English
Basic elements of English
(University of Calgary) has links to Parts of Speech, Sentence
Elements, Punctuation, and Word Use. |
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Complete
Grammar Index The complete
Grammar Index from Commnet.edu |
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Guide to Grammar
and Writing
Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing |
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Sentence Sense-Grammar Seven lessons including an
overview of the sentence, verbs, subjects,
completers and modifiers, embeddid thoughts,
capitalization and punctuation, and combining sentences. |
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Sentence Sense - Usage Eight lessons on fragments,
run-on sentences, final -ed, final -s, subject-verb
agreement, pronouns, spelling, and consistency. |
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Purdue OWL Complete ESL Handout List
Click the plus sign (+) for Grammar and
Mechanics for a complete list of lessons on grammar topics. |
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Grammar and Punctuation
These Grammar and Punctuation Links are from the
Stone Writing Center, Del Mar College. |
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Grammar Topics from Literacy
Education Online Find explanations
for many grammar topics from A to Z. |
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Specific
Grammar Issues |
| Clauses
OWL Purdue |
| Phrases
Review Phrases in sentences: Noun Phrase,
Prepositional Phrase, Appositive Phrase, Absolute Phrase, Infinitive
Phrase, Gerund Phrase, Participial Phrase, and
Quizzes. |
Grammar
Tips ESL
Tips - for sentence sense
Charts and Tables
for sentence
grammar |
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Grammar and Punctuation from the University
of Wisconsin Writing Center An
editing checklist for twelve common errors and other grammar lessons
including conjunctive adverbs, and using semicolons and dashes. |
| Grammar
- Word Classes This page will help you understand grammar
terminology: word classes (parts of speech),
phrases, clauses, and grammatical form and function. |
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Exericise
List -from the above site |
| Parallelism
Continue clicking on this powerpoint presentation on parallelism
to progress through each successive
slide. |
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Spelling,
Punctuation, Usage |
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Elementary
Rules of Usage,
Words
and Expressions Commonly Misused, and Words Often
Misspelled from William Strunk's Elements of Style. |
| Fragments
and Run on sentences The first two links are on
fragments and run-on sentences. |
| Spelling Correct spelling
of computer and Internet terminology
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| Numbers
and Numerals When is a hyphen needed? |
| Punctuation
Explanations and examples using the ampersand (&), apostrophe,
colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, hyphen, parentheses and brackets,
plurals, possessives, quotation marks and italics, and semicolon. |
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ESL
Station
ESL 106/302/91 |
Grammar for Writers:
ESL 106, 302, 91, and English
1A