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Grammar Essentials

The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.

Humanities
Author
Excelsior Online Writing Lab
Publisher
LibreTexts
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 54 sections
  1. 6.1.01: Punctuation
  2. 6.1.1.01: Apostrophes
  3. 6.1.1.02: Brackets
  4. 6.1.1.03: Colons
  5. 6.1.1.04: Commas
  6. 6.1.1.05: Dashes
  7. 6.1.1.06: Ellipses
  8. 6.1.1.07: Exclamation Marks
  9. 6.1.1.08: Hyphens
  10. 6.1.1.09: Parentheses
  11. 6.1.1.10: Periods
  12. 6.1.1.11: Question Marks
  13. 6.1.1.12: Quotation Marks
  14. 6.1.1.13: Semicolons
  15. 6.1.1.14: Try It Out
  16. 6.1.1.15: Putting It All Together
  17. 6.1.1.16: Time to Write
  18. 6.1.02: Parts of Speech
  19. 6.1.2.01: Nouns
  20. 6.1.2.02: Pronouns
  21. 6.1.2.03: Verbs
  22. 6.1.2.04: Adjectives
  23. 6.1.2.05: Adverbs
  24. 6.1.2.06: Propositions
  25. 6.1.2.07: Articles
  26. 6.1.2.08: Conjunctions
  27. 6.1.2.09: Interjections
  28. 6.1.2.10: Try It Out
  29. 6.1.2.11: Putting It All Together
  30. 6.1.2.12: Time to Write
  31. 6.1.03: 20 Most Common Grammar Errors
  32. 6.1.3.01: Wrong Word
  33. 6.1.3.02: Comma After Introductory Element
  34. 6.1.3.03: Documentation Common Error
  35. 6.1.3.04: Pronoun Reference
  36. 6.1.3.05: Spelling
  37. 6.1.3.06: Quotation Error
  38. 6.1.3.07: Unnecessary Comma
  39. 6.1.3.08: Capitalization
  40. 6.1.3.09: Missing Word
  41. 6.1.3.10: Faulty Sentence Structure
  42. 6.1.3.11: Missing Comma with Nonrestrictive Element
  43. 6.1.3.12: Verb Tense Shift
  44. 6.1.3.13: Missing Comma in Compound Sentence
  45. 6.1.3.14: Apostrophe Errors
  46. 6.1.3.15: Run-On Sentences
  47. 6.1.3.16: Comma Splice
  48. 6.1.3.17: Pronoun Agreement
  49. 6.1.3.18: Poorly Integrated Quote
  50. 6.1.3.19: Hyphens
  51. 6.1.3.20: Sentence Fragment
  52. 6.1.3.21: Try It Out
  53. 6.1.3.22: Putting It All Together
  54. 6.1.3.23: Time to Write