A Dozen New Grammar & Usage Exercises (Summer 2012)

Here are 12 grammar, usage, and vocabulary exercises recently added to our collection of Exercises and Quizzes. To view any of these worksheets without ads, simply click on the printer icon near the top of each page.

1. Editing Exercise: Correcting Errors in Pronoun Reference


2. Editing Exercise: Eliminating Wordiness in Business Writing


3. Exercise in Combining Sentences With Regular Verbs


4. Practice in Identifying Direct Objects


5. Practice in Identifying Infinitive Phrases


6. Practice in Identifying Transitional Expressions


7. Practice in Using the Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives


8. Practice in Using a Dictionary to Check Spelling


9. The P.G. Wodehouse Vocabulary Quiz: Practice in Using Context Clues


10. Vocabulary Builder #3: H.L. Mencken's Words


11. Vocabulary Builder #4: Ben Franklin's Words


12. Vocabulary Builder #5: Robert Benchley's Words

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