Grammar Exercises: Practice in Revising and Editing Sentences

This exercise will give you practice in identifying the four functional types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.

This exercise will give you practice in identifying four basic sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.

This exercise will give you practice in using specific descriptive details to create a vivid impression of a particular place.

This sentence-building exercise offers practice in applying the principles introduced in Cohesion Strategies: Signal Words and Phrases.

This exercise, based on the opening sentences in Raymond Chandler's novel "The Big Sleep," will give you practice in recognizing nouns in English.

These exercises will give you practice in recognizing two key elements in a sentence: the subject and the verb.

If you have studied the guidelines for "Using the Different Forms of Pronouns," you should be well prepared for this short practice exercise.

This exercise will give you practice in using personal pronouns and possessive determiners correctly and effectively.

This editing exercise will give you practice in correcting errors in pronoun reference.

This exercise will give you practice in using the different forms of pronouns. Rewrite this paragraph about a fortune teller, substituting an appropriate pronoun for each italicized word or group of words.

This exercise will give you practice is substituting pronouns for nouns to ensure cohesion and conciseness.

This exercise will give you practice in using the appropriate past-tense forms of regular and irregular verbs.

In this two-part exercise, you will (1) select the correct form of the regular verb in parentheses, and (2) combine the sentences in the exercise into a cohesive paragraph.

In this two-part exercise, you will (1) select the correct form of the verb in the past tense, and (2) combine the sentences in the exercise into a cohesive paragraph.

This exercise, based on 12 sentences in E.L. Doctorow's novel "World's Fair," will give you practice in recognizing adjectives in English.

Many adverbs are formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective. In this exercise, you will practice turning adjectives into adverbs.

This revision exercise offers practice in using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases effectively.

This exercise will give you practice in using the prepositions "in," "into," "on," and "at."

This exercise will give you practice in identifying the prepositional phrases in 20 famous movie quotations.

This exercise, adapted from a paragraph by novelist John Steinbeck, will give you practice in recognizing prepositional phrases.

This exercise will give you practice in adding and arranging prepositional phrases in sentences.

This exercise will give you practice in building and expanding sentences with appositives--noun phrases that identify or rename other noun phrases.

This exercise will give you practice in writing clear, complete sentences by correcting unnecessary phrase fragments.

This exercise offers practice in identifying and correcting needless sentence fragments during the editing stage of the writing process.

This exercise offers additional practice in identifying and correcting needless sentence fragments during the editing stage of the writing process.

These guidelines and exercises will show you how to correct a run-on sentence (also known as a fused sentence) with a mark of punctuation--a period or semicolon.

Often the best way to correct a run-on sentence is through one of the techniques of coordination or subordination. Here, in a nutshell, is how those techniques work.

The job of a modifier is to clearly describe or qualify another word or word group in a sentence. This editing exercise will give you practice in placing modifiers where they belong.

Using parallel words or phrases, complete the 20 sentences in this exercise.

When two or more parts of a sentence are parallel in meaning (such as items in a series or words linked by correlative conjunctions), you should coordinate those parts by making them parallel in form. Rewrite each of the following sentences, correcting any errors in parallelism.

This exercise will give you practice in identifying the adjective clauses in ten sentences adapted from a paragraph in Richard Rodriguez's memoir "Hunger of Memory."

Test your understanding of the five relative pronouns by completing this short exercise.

In this exercise, we'll learn to distinguish between the two main types of adjective clauses: restrictive and nonrestrictive.

This exercise will give you practice in building and expanding sentences with adjective clauses.

This exercise will give practice in avoiding misplaced modifiers as you apply the principles introduced in Creating and Arranging Participial Phrases.

This exercise will give you practice in identifying the adverb clauses in ten proverbial sayings.

Verbals--which include participles, gerunds, and infinitives--are the forms of a verb that function as other parts of speech. This exercise will give you practice in recognizing verbals.

This exercise will test your ability to recognize infinitive phrases and distinguish them from prepositional phrases.

In this exercise you will apply the strategies introduced in "Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses."

If you have studied the guidelines for "Correcting Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement," you should now be well prepared for this short review exercise.

In this two-part exercise in subject-verb agreement, you will (1) select the correct form of the verb in the present tense, and (2) combine the sentences in the exercise into a cohesive paragraph.

Complete this editing exercise after you have reviewed the article on Correcting Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement.

If you have studied the guidelines for correcting errors in subject-verb agreement, you should have no problem completing this short review exercise.

These three review exercises will give you practice in applying the rules of subject-verb agreement.

This exercise will give you practice in working with verb tenses: changing the past forms of verbs to the future.

Complete this editing exercise after you have reviewed our Introduction to Irregular Verbs.

After you have reviewed our pages on regular and irregular verbs, give these five proofreading exercises a try.

In this two-part exercise in using the past forms of regular and irregular verbs, you will (1) select the correct form of the verb in parentheses, and (2) combine the sentences in the exercise into a cohesive paragraph.

This two-part exercise will give you practice is using the past forms of regular verbs and irregular verbs.

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