Skills 222: Grammar

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Here you will find selected links to online explanations, exercises, quizzes, tools, and resources that you can work on on your own.

If you are enrolled in a self-paced Skills course and would like to work on the course for credit, please see a Skills instructor for a specific assignment.

If you are not enrolled in a Skills class but are interested in improving your skills, or if you are enrolled and would like to just explore on your own without receiving credit or feedback from a Skills intructor, click on any of the links below to see what might help you the most.

Prepare for a Standardized Test

Self-Study

• http://www.edict.com.hk/diagnostic/ Virtual Language Centre.The self-correcting VLC Diagnostic Test (modelled on the Oxford Placement Test) can help you determine your strengths and weaknesses in English Grammar. Provides your own customized learning program (Learning Pathways)
• http://smccd.net/accounts/cow/tutorials.htm San Mateo College Writing Center's interactive and "print-yourself" tutorials on identifying subjects and verbs, subject-verb agreement, fragments and run-ons, verb tense, pronouns, paralell structure, etc.
• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral/index.htm
  Exercise Central is a collection of editing exercises that provide practice for mastering the skills of editing grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.
• http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/
  Self-scoring diagnostic quizzes at 3 levels. Topics: Irregular Verbs, Pronoun Case, Common Errors, Reading Skills, Subj/V Agreement, Parts of Speech, Word Form, The Deadly `ed', Re-expression, Inversion, Sentence Analysis , Adjectives , Relative Pronouns
• http://departments.weber.edu/writingcenter
  Weber State University Writing Center

Grammar Guides, Handouts, and Exercises

• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
  Webster's Guide to Grammar and Writing...interactive explanations, exercises, and quizzes on all aspects of writing and grammar
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
  Purdue's extensive handouts writing and grammar
• http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/writing-lab/help_pages.html
  Bowling Green state University's Writing Lab Help Pages
• http://www.ohiou,edu/esl/english/grammar/index.html
  Ohio University ESL page
• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/guidebook/exercise_a.htm
  Bedford's A Writer's Guidebook exercises
• http://www.eslpartyland.com/articles/esl-grammar-links.html
  

Tools

• http://www.edict.com.hk/StudyGuide/concordance-examples.htmHow to study grammar with the concordancer. This amazing tool can be used to find examples for most word structures and phrases. This is a greatresource for any grammar question, such as which preposition to use.