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Grammar Learning Object | Spelling
Online Grammar Site MHCC
Mt. Hood Community College English Department site features
short, clear explanations of grammar concepts and 10 question
quizzes to check understanding
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University is one of the
top sites for writing resources on the web.
Skillswise Grammar 
A wonderful website from BBC Interactive Factual and Learning
featuring handouts, printable practice worksheets, quizzes, and games.
Covers apostrophes, adverbs, adjectives, commas, double negatives,
subject verb agreement, creating sentences, and joining sentences.
Bedford/St. Martin's, publisher of writing textbooks, provides
useful online resources after a free sign up. Read grammar
tutorials, practice understanding of grammar through exercises, and
even take a grammar diagnostic survey to target areas for study.
Capital Community College hosts this website, arranged by word and
sentence level, paragraph level, essay level, quizzes, and peripherals.
Grammar Girl
Hip podcasts on grammar topics (yes, it's possible) from Mignon
Fogarty, former journalist
Video - Run Together Sentences MHCC
Former MHCC Reading and Writing Tutor, Graham Nystrom explains
run on sentences and fragments (requires Internet Explorer)
Grammar Rock Videos
In the 70's and 80's ABC ran a series of short educational animated
films on grammar (and other educational topics). They're still catchy
and fun to watch now.
Grammar Handouts
Handouts about writing, references,grammar, specific writing
assignments, and writing for a specific department from
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina
ESL Grammar Handouts
A useful and extensive collection of handouts from Georgia
Perimeter College to use with ESL or native speakers.
Writing Handouts
From the Student Learning Assistance Center at Texas State
University San Marcos
Nationalpunctuationday.com
A straightforward explanation of various types of punctuation
by former journalist, Jeff Rubin
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Commas
by BBC Interactive
Capitalization and Punctuation by Kay Chitwood, Wisc-Online
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Verb Tenses
by BBC Interactive
Subject Verb Agreement by BBC Interactive
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Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, and Comma Splices
by Tracy Helixon, Wisc-Online
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Possessive Practice &
Possessive Practice: Self-Check
by Claudia Zins, Fox Valley Technical College
Possessive Nouns
by Wanda Lay of Mid-State Technical College
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Personal Pronouns
by BBC Interactive
Personal Pronouns
by MarQulyn McKinney, Milwaukee Area Technical College
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Misplaced Modifiers
by Tracy
Helixon, Wisc-Online
Homophones: To, too, two
by Nancy McFadden, Wisc-Online
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Learning Express Library
Click on Learning Express Library under Databases A-Z. Create an account on
this site (you have to go through the library or you won't be allowed to sign
up). Look under the High School section for curriculums on spelling entitled
“Vocabulary & Spelling Course Series, Vocabulary & Spelling Practice Exercises.”
Rules and Suggestions for Spelling
Spelling suggestions and quizzes from the Capital Community College website
AllWrite Spelling and Hyphenation
Spelling and hyphenation tips, prestest, exercises, quizzes, and posttest from
Houghton-Mifflin's companion site for AllWrite 2.0 textbook (does not require
book).
Spelling Tips from John Irving
In an entertaining read, best-selling author, John Irving, urges bad spellers not
to despair (since he was one himself).
Spelling Handouts
The Dunwoody Campus Learning and Tutoring Centerof Georgia Perimeter
College offers printable spelling handouts.
Proofreading Spelling
Kay Chitwood of Fox Valley Technical College covers some basic spelling rules.
The reader refers to online spelling posters and handouts which can pop up,
and is asked to fill in blanks and answer multiple choice questions to check
understanding.
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