Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling from Online Writing Lab

Grammar

Adjectives and adverbs

• A or An?: with exercise and answer key
• Adjective or Adverb?: with 2 exercises and answer keys
• Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns
• Using Articles (A/An/The): with 2 exercises and answer keys

Nouns

• A Little Help with Capitals
• Count and NonCount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words): with 2 exercises and answer keys
• Count and NonCount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives): with exercise and answer key
• Writing Numbers: with exercise and answer key

Prepositions

• Prepositions of Direction: To, On(to), In(to) with exercise and answer key
• Prepositions of Location: At, In, On with exercise and answer key
• Prepositions of Time, of Place, and to Introduce Objects
• Spatial Relationships of Prepositions

Pronouns

• Using Pronouns Clearly
• Pronoun Case

Sentence structure

• Appositives : with exercise and answer key
• Dangling Modifiers
• Independent and Dependent Clauses (definitions)
• Making Subject and Verbs Agree
• Parallel Structure
• Run-ons, Comma splices, and Fused Sentences
• Sentence Fragments: with 3 exercises and answer keys
• Sentence Punctuation Patterns
• Some Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity

Verbs

• Active/Passive Verbs
• Irregular Verbs
• Sequence of Tenses
• Tense Consistency: with an exercise and answer key
• Two-Part (Phrasal) Verbs- (Idioms)
• Verb Tenses
• Verbs with Helpers (Perfectives and Auxilliaries)
• Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives
• Voice and Mood

Punctuation

Apostrophes and Quotation Marks

• Apostrophes with exercise and answer key
• Quotation Marks: with exercise and answer key

Commas

• Commas after Introductions: with exercise and answer key
• Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences : withexercise and answer key
• Commas with Essential and Non-essential Elements: with3 exercises and answer keys
• Proofreading for Commas
• Using Commas:with 5 exercises and answer keys

Hyphens

• Using Hyphens

Other punctuation

• Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics: with exercise and answer key

Sentence Punctuation

• Sentence Punctuation Patterns
• Run-ons, Comma splices, and Fused Sentences

Spelling

• Spelling: Sound-Alike Words
• Spelling: Accept/Except and Affect/Effect: with 2 exercises and answer keys
• Spelling: i/e rules: with 2 exercises and answer keys
• Spelling: Noun Plurals
• Spelling: Suffixes–-ible vs. —able: with exercise and answer key

Exercises

Try our interactive exercises index for interactive versions of some of these exercises.

• A or An?
• Adjective or Adverb?
  • Exercise 1
  • Excerise 2
• Apostrophes
• Appositives
• Articles (A/An/The):
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
• Commas:
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
  • Exercise 4
  • Exercise 5
• Commas after Introductions
• Commas Set Off Nonessential Elements:
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
• Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences
• Exercises for Eliminating Wordiness
• Count and NonCount Nouns Exercises
• Quantity Terms with Count and Noncount Nouns
• Writing Numbers:Exercise
• Practice Exercises in Paraphrasing
• Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
• Prepositions of Direction:To, On (to), In (to)
• Prepositions of Location: At, In, On
• Punctuation Exercise 1
• Quotation Marks
• Sentence Fragments
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
• Spelling: accept/except
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
• Spelling: i/e rules
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
• Spelling:Exercises for -ible vs. —able
• Tense Consistency