Grammar SOS

Click on the links below for quick help on a variety of grammar issues. Most of these grammar points are culled from your own work and will be changed or updated as I notice new problems when grading. If you have any issues or questions, please tell me about them and we'll post solutions here.

Punctuation:

• Commas
• Hyphens
• Semi-colons

Grammar:

• Paragraphs
• Pronoun and noun agreement
• Verbs: tenses, splits, passive voice

Writing Tips:

• Pet Peeves (or, "urg," "arg," and "awk")
• Quotes
• Redundancy
• What is "tighten up?"

Style:

• Acronyms
• Addresses
• Capitalization
• Numbers
• People and Titles
• Web Words
• Check out this abbreviated listing of AP Style

Links on the Web

• Strunk and White's Elements of Style is available through Bartleby's great books, with a clickable index.
• Words on Words offers links to copy editing, headline and caption writing.
• Proofreading Symbols
• More Proofreading Symbols
• How about these sites to test your knowledge?
• ACES Copy Editing Quizzes, specifically AP Style, Pick a Word and Editing II
• Newsroom 101





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Updated January 2009

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