Grammar Exercises: Practice in Revising and Editing Sentences
Practice in recognizing, revising, editing, and correcting a variety of sentence structures.
Coherence Exercise: Building & Connecting Sentences
This sentence-building exercise offers practice in applying the principles introduced in Coherence Strategies: Signal Words and Phrases.
This sentence-building exercise offers practice in applying the principles introduced in Coherence Strategies: Signal Words and Phrases.
Exercises in Identifying Subjects and Verbs
These exercises will give you practice in recognizing two key elements in a sentence: the subject and the verb.
These exercises will give you practice in recognizing two key elements in a sentence: the subject and the verb.
Using the Different Forms of Pronouns: Practice Exercise 1
If you have studied the guidelines for "Using the Different Forms of Pronouns," you should be well prepared for this short practice exercise.
If you have studied the guidelines for "Using the Different Forms of Pronouns," you should be well prepared for this short practice exercise.
Review Exercise: Revising Sentences with Simple Modifiers
This revision exercise offers practice in using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases effectively.
This revision exercise offers practice in using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases effectively.
Identifying Prepositional Phrases
This exercise, adapted from a paragraph by novelist John Steinbeck, will give you practice in recognizing prepositional phrases.
This exercise, adapted from a paragraph by novelist John Steinbeck, will give you practice in recognizing prepositional phrases.
Correcting Phrase Fragments
This exercise will give you practice in writing clear, complete sentences by correcting unnecessary phrase fragments.
This exercise will give you practice in writing clear, complete sentences by correcting unnecessary phrase fragments.
Editing Exercise: Correcting Sentence Fragments
This exercise offers practice in identifying and correcting needless sentence fragments during the editing stage of the writing process.
This exercise offers practice in identifying and correcting needless sentence fragments during the editing stage of the writing process.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Coordinators
In this exercise you will apply the strategies introduced in "Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses."
In this exercise you will apply the strategies introduced in "Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses."
Review Exercise: Basic Subject-Verb Agreement
If you have studied the guidelines for "Correcting Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement," you should now be well prepared for this short review exercise.
If you have studied the guidelines for "Correcting Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement," you should now be well prepared for this short review exercise.
Review Exercises: Subject-Verb Agreement
These three review exercises will give you practice in applying the rules of subject-verb agreement.
These three review exercises will give you practice in applying the rules of subject-verb agreement.
Exercise: Recasting a Paragraph in the Future Tense
This exercise will give you practice in working with verb tenses: changing the past forms of verbs to the future tense.
This exercise will give you practice in working with verb tenses: changing the past forms of verbs to the future tense.
Proofreading for Errors in Verb Tense
After you have reviewed our pages on regular and irregular verbs, give these five proofreading exercises a try.
After you have reviewed our pages on regular and irregular verbs, give these five proofreading exercises a try.