I thought you might find this useful. A list of grammar tricks I found on Dumb Little Men…They’ve compiled a bunch of tips and exercises from an online writing lab.
I know so many from my generation simply didn’t learn grammar. I personally learned it when I studied French from a library text book while working in a pub in London when I was 18. Then, a few years later I did a journalism cadetship at the Herald Sun in Melbourne. I got obsessed by misplaced modifiers. Mostly I’ve just practiced and checked and got things wrong and been horrified when I’ve seen it in print and learned the hard way.
I’ve also developed pet hates. Like misplaced modifiers. And your’s. Or when your not concentrating and you are found out.
What get’s on you’re goat?
Adjectives and adverbs
- 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
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:w with an exercise and answer key
- Two-Part (Phrasal) Verbs- (Idioms)
- Verb Tenses
- Verbs with Helpers (Perfectives and Auxiliaries)
- Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives
- Voice and Mood
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 : with exercise 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
Other punctuation
- Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics: with exercise and answer key
Sentence Punctuation
