Grammar Essentials

by Excelsior Online Writing Lab

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The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.

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Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About this Book
  7. 1: Punctuation
  8. 1.1: Apostrophes
  9. 1.2: Brackets
  10. 1.3: Colons
  11. 1.4: Commas
  12. 1.5: Dashes
  13. 1.6: Ellipses
  14. 1.7: Exclamation Marks
  15. 1.8: Hyphens
  16. 1.9: Parentheses
  17. 1.10: Periods
  18. 1.11: Question Marks
  19. 1.12: Quotation Marks
  20. 1.13: Semicolons
  21. 1.14: Try It Out
  22. 1.15: Putting It All Together
  23. 1.16: Time to Write
  24. 2: Parts of Speech
  25. 2.1: Nouns
  26. 2.2: Pronouns
  27. 2.3: Verbs
  28. 2.4: Adjectives
  29. 2.5: Adverbs
  30. 2.6: Propositions
  31. 2.7: Articles
  32. 2.8: Conjunctions
  33. 2.9: Interjections
  34. 2.10: Try It Out
  35. 2.11: Putting It All Together
  36. 2.12: Time to Write
  37. 3: 20 Most Common Grammar Errors
  38. 3.1: Wrong Word
  39. 3.2: Comma After Introductory Element
  40. 3.3: Documentation Common Error
  41. 3.4: Pronoun Reference
  42. 3.5: Spelling
  43. 3.6: Quotation Error
  44. 3.7: Unnecessary Comma
  45. 3.8: Capitalization
  46. 3.9: Missing Word
  47. 3.10: Faulty Sentence Structure
  48. 3.11: Missing Comma with Nonrestrictive Element
  49. 3.12: Verb Tense Shift
  50. 3.13: Missing Comma in Compound Sentence
  51. 3.14: Apostrophe Errors
  52. 3.15: Run-On Sentences
  53. 3.16: Comma Splice
  54. 3.17: Pronoun Agreement
  55. 3.18: Poorly Integrated Quote
  56. 3.19: Hyphens
  57. 3.20: Sentence Fragment
  58. 3.21: Try It Out
  59. 3.22: Putting It All Together
  60. 3.23: Time to Write
  61. Back Matter
  62. Index
  63. Glossary
  64. Glossary
  65. Detailed Licensing