Weekly Grammar Exercises
WEEK 2 Sentences: types and variety
Point of view
Always
write from third person point-of-view
- Third person points-of-view (e.g., he, she, it, and they as
well as their accusative, dative, and possessive forms) should be used. No
first and second person points-of-view (e.g., I, you, we) are used in academic writing.
Academic writing
rarely requires you to write in the first
person, using "I", "me", or
"our". Exceptions may occur when you are asked
to relate events or statements to your own experiences of life and provide a
personal opinion.
Read
all of the text—you may even want to print it for your future reference—and
complete these quizzes along the way:
WEEK 3 Sentences: comma splices,
fragments
Fused Sentences and Comma
Splices
Practice Exercises for Fused
Sentences and Comma Splices
Sentence Fragment Exercises #1
WEEK 4 Pronouns: case, agreement and reference
Pronoun Agreement
and Reference
Subject verb agreement
Showing Possession
Using
apostrophe with possessives
Using "I" "you"
and "it"
Point of view
Always
write from third person point-of-view
- Third person points-of-view (e.g., he, she, it, and they as
well as their accusative, dative, and possessive forms) should be used. No
first and second person points-of-view (e.g., I, you, we) are used in academic writing.
WEEK 5 Clauses and modifiers
Misplaced
and Dangling Modifiers 1
Misplaced and
Dangling Modifiers 2
WEEK 6 parallelism
Using
Parallelism in Sentences
WEEK 7 Conciseness
Verb Tense
WEEK 8 Coherence: transitions
between ideas
WEEK 9 Passive vs
Active Voice
Recognizing and
changing passive constructions
WEEK 10 Vocabulary
WEEK 11 Spelling