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
A or An?: with exercise and answer key
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
Using Pronouns Clearly
Pronoun Case
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: 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
该贴已经同步到 lemon077的微博
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
A or An?: with exercise and answer key
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
Using Pronouns Clearly
Pronoun Case
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: 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
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