Grammar
and Style Notes--"These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and
explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes.
Anyone who can resist turning my own preferences into dogma is welcome to use this
HTML edition."
Metaphors
and Similes--Refresh your grasp of metaphors, similes, and imagery. For
students and teachers. Gives examples and lets you try your own. Also
gives an index of linked poem texts and other class related material.
Parts of Speech--Brought to you by the Purdue On-Line Writing Laboratory. The
parts of speech are the categories into which words are placed according to how they
function in sentences.
Punctuation--Brought to you by the Purdue On-Line Writing Laboratory.
A good place to start when thinking about punctuating sentences is to
review all the sentence punctuation patterns and some useful definitions that you'll
need when reading rules for punctuating sentences (definitions for independent
clauses, dependent clauses, and so on). Among the most common sentence punctuation
errors are run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences.
Purdue University's On-Line
Writing Lab
--"At Purdue, students come to the Writing Lab to talk with tutors about planning
and writing their papers. On-line, the Writing Lab offers other services as well,
including some of our materials on topics such as commas, resumes, formats (such as
MLA or APA) for citing sources, non-sexist language, and other information. You can
also find useful links to sources of information for your research papers and other
writing."
Sentence-Combining:
Coordination--A brief lesson and exercise.
Sentence-Combining
Exercises--An exercise to help your students gain proficiency in combining
sentences.
Sentence-Combining:
Parallelism--A brief lesson and exercise on this subject.
Sentence-Combining
Rules--Information on how and how not to combine sentences.
Spelling--Brought
to you by the Purdue On-Line Writing Laboratory. You can review "i before e" rules
with spelling exercises and then check the answers. Other help with spelling is available
with sound-alike words such as "their"/"there"/ "they're," "its"/"it's" and with words
such as "accept"/"except" and "affect"/"effect" with the homonym exercises.
Writing noun plurals and numbers are two other spelling concerns explained here.
