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Hi Member's,
I just received a email from one of the senior citizen's that helped raise me & my beachbum friends. Several of my senior friends visit our forum to read our posts. My grandfather & several senior citizens home-school us because the public school was to far away from our beach village.
They constantly tell me that I am butchering the English language & that I have very bad grammar , & that they taught us better...
I thought I better take a refresher course & found the below to see `if I can improve....I'm just sharing, because I care , and maybe it will also help a member `if they want to improve their Grammar & Punctuations skills.
(I know I've created my own writing style to `be different & unique (Because I feel different then the rest ) LOL 4-Sure
Found the below from the "Dumb Little Man" LOL & it has some decent links/infor.
P.S. If you have any links on this subject ? Please share & post `it OK ....Thanks
40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
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
I just received a email from one of the senior citizen's that helped raise me & my beachbum friends. Several of my senior friends visit our forum to read our posts. My grandfather & several senior citizens home-school us because the public school was to far away from our beach village.
They constantly tell me that I am butchering the English language & that I have very bad grammar , & that they taught us better...
I thought I better take a refresher course & found the below to see `if I can improve....I'm just sharing, because I care , and maybe it will also help a member `if they want to improve their Grammar & Punctuations skills.
(I know I've created my own writing style to `be different & unique (Because I feel different then the rest ) LOL 4-Sure
Found the below from the "Dumb Little Man" LOL & it has some decent links/infor.
P.S. If you have any links on this subject ? Please share & post `it OK ....Thanks
Welcome to Dumb Little Man! Each week we provide a handful of tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.
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
- 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 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
- 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
- Active/Passive Verbs
- Irregular Verbs
- Sequence of Tenses
- Tense Consistency:w 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 with exercise and answer key
- Quotation Marks: with exercise and answer key
- 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
- Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics: with exercise and answer key
- Spelling: Sound-Alike Words
- Spelling: Accept/Except and Affect/Effect : with 2 exercises and answer keys
- Spelling: i/e rules: with 2 exercises and answer keys
- Spelling: Noun Plurals
- Spelling: Suffixes–- ible vs. —able : with exercise and answer key
Last edited by Space; 06-09-2012 at 11:19 AM.
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