English Department

EN 1101, EN 1102, EN 1103, EN 1105

USEFUL WEB RESOURCES & SOFTWARE

5) Grammatical/Technical Concerns 

The links below have been organized into categories (and the categories alphabetized) to better help you to find what might be useful for you. To go to any website, simply click on the site address or site name below (these are generally in blue or red type). 

This list is currently a work-in-progress. Please help us by reporting any dead links (links that don't open), other problems, or recommended web resources you might find to Prof. Tom Laughlin at laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu.

Apostrophes

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & links to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html

 

St. Cloud State University's on-line resources of their writing center:

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/apostrophe.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

 http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/apostrophe.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web":

 http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/possessive.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

 

Capitalization

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & links to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_caps.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

 http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/capitals.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web": 

 http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/capital.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

 

Commas

St. Cloud State University's on-line resources of their writing center:

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/comma.html

 

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & links to exercises:

·  Commas after Introductions: exercise and answer key

·  Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences : exercise and answer key

·  Commas with Essential and Non-essential Elements: 3 exercises and answer keys

·  Proofreading for Commas

·  Using Commas:5 exercises and answer keys

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

 http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web": 

 http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/comma.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

 

Dangling, Misplaced Modifiers

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & link to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_dangmod.html

 

St. Cloud State University's on-line resources of their writing center:

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/modifiers.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/modifiers.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web":  

http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/mismod.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

Fragments / Sentence Fragments

Helpful background information to know when trying to fix Sentence Fragments:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_clause.html

 

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & links to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_frag.html

St. Cloud State University's on-line resources of their writing center:

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/fragmentcauses.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web": 

http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/fragment.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

 

Parallel Structure

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & link to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_parallel.html

St. Cloud State University's on-line resources of their writing center:

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/parallelism.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

 

Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Reference

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & link to exercises at bottom:

·  Using Pronouns Clearly

·  Pronoun Case

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web":

http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/npagree.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

Punctuation

Purdue’s on-line writing lab with explanations & links to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentp.html

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/marks.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web":

http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html#punct (sublinks to commas, quotation marks, semicolons, etc.)

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

Run-On Sentences (also comma splices, fused sentences)

Helpful background information to know when trying to fix Run-On Sentences:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_clause.html

 

Purdue’s on-line writing lab on Run-On Sentences with explanations & link to exercises at bottom:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html

This information from Purdue’s on-line writing lab on Sentence Punctuation

Patterns is also helpful for correcting Run-On Sentences:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentp.html

St. Cloud State University's on-line resources of their writing center:

Comma Splices, Fused Sentences, and Run-Ons

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/csfsro.html    &

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/avcsfsro.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web":

http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/runon.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

Shifts in Tense, Diction, Person

Purdue’s on-line writing lab on “Shifts in Tense” with explanations & links to exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_tensecEX1.html

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

(shift in tense & pronoun references):

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/consistency.htm

 

Subject/Verb Agreement

Purdue’s on-line writing lab on Subject/Verb Agreement with

explanations & link to exercises at bottom:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing" & links to exercises:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm

 

University of Richmond's "Writer's Web":

 http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/svagree.html

 

St. Cloud State University (from LEO: Literacy Education Online; )

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html

 

Summary of Verb Tenses in English from St. Cloud State University (from LEO: Literacy Education Online; )

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

 

Interactive Grammar Quizzes

 

Capital Community College's "Guide to Grammar and Writing"

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm#marks

 

Interactive "Grammar Exercises" for A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker by

Bedford/St. Martin's publishing -- select the exercises you want from the menu (anyone can sign in and use without an instructor's email -- just leave that field blank)

http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

 

Other Grammar Resources

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Roget's Thesaurus 

The University of Richmond's "Writer's Web" 

http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html

University of Illinois' On-line Grammar Handbook

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm

Paradigm is an online writer's guide and handbook distributed

freely over the WWW

http://www.powa.org/ 

An electronic copy of the classic book Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. 

http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html 

List of links to dozens of on-line writing labs http://iwca.syr.edu:16080/ 

List of grammar hotlines http://www.tc.cc.va.us/writcent/gh/hotlinol.htm