Web Links for Grammar & Style Practice

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Comma splices   

• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova4.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova3.htm

Run-on Sentences and Fragments

• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/runons_quiz.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_quiz.htm

Plurals vs. Possessives

• http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/its_there_quiz.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/apostrophe_quiz2.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/plurals_quiz.htm

Avoiding wordiness

• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/wordy_quiz.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova8.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova11.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/plague.htm

Parallelism

• http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/parallelism_quiz.htm
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/parallelism2_quiz.htm

Biased Language

• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova6.htm
• http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~jpwilson/courses/fall99/labs.html (scroll down to question 6)
• http://unhinfo.unh.edu/womens-commission/nonsexist.html (scroll down for good list of substitutes)

General reference

• http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html (The Elements of Style by Strunk & White)

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