Writing Basics: Grammar

(http://www.powa.org/editing/basic-punctuation)- Part of the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant website, this section addresses the use of the twelve types of punctuation marks with explanations and examples.

(http://www.dailygrammar.com) - Daily Grammar consists of 440 lessons and 88 quizzes. Lessons 1-90 cover the eight parts of speech. Lessons 91-300 cover the parts of the sentence. Lessons 301-440 cover the mechanics of grammar (capitalization and punctuation).

(http://www.grammarbook.com) - Based on The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, this site also contains grammar videos, a grammar blog, and quizzes.

An award winning website provides a collection of tips to improve your writing. It covers tricky punctuation, grammar rules, and word choices, striving to make grammar fun rather than frustrating.

(http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/index.html)- Grammar-Quizzes.com is an open educational resource for understanding, learning and practicing English grammar usage. These materials present simple grammar concepts and are most appropriate for high school and college level non-native speakers, but also include practices that could be used for native speakers.

(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/) – Provides help with essays and research papers.

(Purdue University) This area of the Pudue OWL includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions.

(Purdue University) This area of Purdue OWL covers use of commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, and hyphens. and clauses.

(http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/GrammarPunct.html) - From The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this portion of The Writer's Handbook covers dashes, commas, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, subject verb agreement, twelve common errors, as well as a guide to proofreading.