After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You're excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.
Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double negatives and run-on sentences colliding with each other.
Now I am no grammar whiz but I know a good resource when I see it. Purdue University maintains an online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.
Learn and enjoy!
Adjectives and adverbs
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A or An?:
with exercise
and answer key
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Adjective or
Adverb?:
with 2 exercises
and answer keys
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Adjectives with
Countable and
Uncountable
Nouns
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Using Articles (
A/An/The ):
with 2 exercises
and answer keys
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A Little Help
with Capitals
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Count and
NonCount Nouns
(with Plurals,
Articles, and
Quantity Words):
with 2 exercises
and answer keys
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Count and
NonCount Nouns
(with Articles
and Adjectives):
with exercise
and answer key
- Writing Numbers: with exercise and answer key
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Prepositions of
Direction: To,
On(to), In(to):
with exercise
and answer key
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Prepositions of
Location: At,
In, On: with
exercise and
answer key
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Prepositions of
Time, of Place,
and to Introduce
Objects
- Spatial Relationships of Prepositions
Sentence structure
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Appositives:
with exercise
and answer key
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Dangling
Modifiers
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Independent and
Dependent
Clauses
(definitions)
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Making Subject
and Verbs Agree
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Parallel
Structure
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Run-ons, Comma
splices, and
Fused Sentences
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Sentence
Fragments:
with 3 exercises
and answer keys
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Sentence
Punctuation
Patterns
- Some Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity
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Active/Passive
Verbs
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Irregular Verbs
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Sequence of
Tenses
-
Tense
Consistency:w
with an exercise
and answer key
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Two-Part
(Phrasal) Verbs-
(Idioms)
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Verb Tenses
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Verbs with
Helpers
(Perfectives and
Auxiliaries)
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Verbals:
Gerunds,
Participles, and
Infinitives
- Voice and Mood
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Apostrophes
with exercise
and answer key
- Quotation Marks: with exercise and answer key
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Commas after
Introductions:
with exercise
and answer key
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Commas vs.
Semicolons in
Compound
Sentences :
with exercise
and answer key
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Commas with
Essential and
Non-essential
Elements:
with3 exercises
and answer keys
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Proofreading for
Commas
- Using Commas: with 5 exercises and answer keys
- Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics: with exercise and answer key
Spelling
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Spelling:
Sound-Alike
Words
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Spelling:
Accept/Except
and
Affect/Effect
: with 2
exercises and
answer keys
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Spelling: i/e
rules: with
2 exercises and
answer keys
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Spelling: Noun
Plurals
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Spelling:
Suffixes–- ible
vs. —able :
with exercise
and answer key