Grammar and Punctuation

Brush up on your grammar skills by studying the following grammar reviews.

"The Write@Vice"

The Write@Vice Newsletter Pt II

Adjective and Adverb Use

Capitalization, Italicization, Hyphenation, & Quotation Technique

Commas

Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

Diction: Commonly Confused/Misused Words

Faulty Comparisons

Parallelism

Possessives/Apostrophes

Pronoun Case

Pronoun Reference and Antecedent Agreement

Semicolons & Colons

Sentence Errors: Comma Splices, Run-ons, and Fragments

Subject-Verb Agreement

Verb Forms and Tenses

Writing Lab Student Practice Tests

Test your knowledge of grammar rules with the UWF Writing Lab student practice tests.

Adjectives and Adverbs

Commas

Capitalization, Italicization, Hyphenation, & Quotation Technique

Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

Pronoun Reference and Agreement

Semicolons and Colons

Sentence Errors

Subject-Verb Agreement

Verb Forms and Tenses

"Let's Talk Grammar" Podcast

Writing Lab Director Mamie Hixon discusses grammar.

Let's Talk Grammar: 10 Most Common Errors in Speech and Writing

Let's Talk Grammar: A vs. An

Let's Talk Grammar: Accept and Except

Let's Talk Grammar: Alot or A Lot?

Let's Talk Grammar: Apostrophe Catastrophes

Let's Talk Grammar: Bad Grammar

Let's Talk Grammar: Commonly Misused Words

Let's Talk Grammar: Email Etiquette

Let's Talk Grammar: Fewer vs. Less

Let's Talk Grammar: Greetings and Salutations

Let's Talk Grammar: Is Ain't a Word?

Let's Talk Grammar: Is Media Singular or Plural?

Let's Talk Grammar: Keeping Grammar Real

Let's Talk Grammar: Lend vs. Loan

Let's Talk Grammar: Let's

Let's Talk Grammar: Living Room vs. Board Room

Let's Talk Grammar: Me, Myself, and I

Let's Talk Grammar: Minor-Type Sentences

Let's Talk Grammar: Non-Sexist Language

Let's Talk Grammar: Passive Voice

Let's Talk Grammar: Prepositions

Let's Talk Grammar: Pronoun Case

Let's Talk Grammar: Pronoun Reference

Let's Talk Grammar: Punctuation

Let's Talk Grammar: Redundancies

Let's Talk Grammar: Split Infinitives

Let's Talk Grammar: Subjunctive Mood

Let's Talk Grammar: What's in a Name?

Let's Talk Grammar: When to Use Real

Let's Talk Grammar: Who, Which, or That

Mini-Lessons for Grammar

Mini-lessons are grammar lessons on a more granular scale for students with specific questions. Each lesson includes a quick quiz.

Mini-Lesson 1: Abbreviations

Mini-Lesson 2: Active and Passive Voice

Mini-Lesson 3: Adjectives and Adverbs: Bad & Badly

Mini-Lesson 5: Adjectives and Adverbs with Linking/Sense Verbs

Mini-Lesson 7: A/the Number of and a/the Percentage of

Mini-Lesson 9: Agreement: Gerunds as Subjects

Mini-Lesson 13: Agreement: Media and Data

Mini-Lesson 14: Agreement: Singular Subjects

Mini-Lesson 16: Agreement: Subjects and Verbs

Mini-Lesson 17: Agreement: There and Here

Mini-Lesson 18: Agreement: Intervening Word Groups

Mini-Lesson 23: Capitalization of Titles

Mini-Lesson 24: Capitalization of Names

Mini-Lesson 25: Capitalization: Political Groups, Departments, and Organizations

Mini-Lesson 26: Capitalization: Races, Nationalities, and Species

Mini-Lesson 28: Capitalization: Days of the Week, Months, Holidays, and Seasons

Mini-Lesson 29: Capitalization: Directions vs. Geographical Areas

Mini-Lesson 30: Capitalization of Trade & Brand Names

Mini-Lesson 32: Colons

Mini-Lesson 33: Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences

Mini-Lesson 34: Commas with Compound Subjects and Compound Elements

Mini-Lesson 36: Commas with Degrees and Titles

Mini-Lesson 37: Commas with Items in a Series and Coordinate Modifiers

Mini-Lesson 38: Commas with Coordinate Modifiers

Mini-Lesson 39: Commas with Direction Quotations

Mini-Lesson 40: Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements

Mini-Lesson 41: Commas with Parenthetical Elements

Mini-Lesson 42: Commas with Sentence Tags, Contrasting Elements, and Words in Direct Address

Mini-Lesson 45: Comparisons: Omission of As, Other, Any, and Else

Mini-Lesson 46: Comparisons: Illogical, Ambiguous, and Incomplete

Mini-Lesson 48: Dangling Modifiers

Mini-Lesson 52: Diction: A lot vs. Alot, Allright vs. Alright

Mini-Lesson 54: Diction: Amount vs. Number, Fewer vs. Less, Between vs. Among

Mini-Lesson 56: Diction: Kind of, Sort of, etc.

Mini-Lesson 57: Diction: Lead/Led

Mini-Lesson 58: Diction: Principal/Principle

Mini-Lesson 59: Diction: Supposed to

Mini-Lesson 60: Diction: Than/then

Mini-Lesson 61: Diction: To, Too, and Two

Mini-Lesson 64: Ellipses

Mini-Lesson 65: Faulty Predication

Mini-Lesson 66: Fragments

Mini-Lesson 67: Hyphens

Mini-Lesson 68: Idioms

Mini-Lesson 70: Italics

Mini-Lesson 71: Misplaced Modifiers

Mini-Lesson 76: Plurals

Mini-Lesson 80: Pronoun Cases: Objective

Mini-Lesson 86: Pronoun Reference: Use of Who, Whose, Which, Where, and That

Mini-Lesson 88: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Mini-Lesson 89: Possessives with Gerunds

Mini-Lesson 91: Possessives: Singular Nouns

Mini-Lesson 93: Quotation Marks with Other Marks

Mini-Lesson 94: Quotation Marks with Titles and Words

Mini-Lesson 96: Subjunctive Mood

Mini-Lesson 98: Verb Forms

Mini-Lesson 100: Verb Tense: Use of the Present Tense

Mini-Lesson 101: Second Person

Grammar and Punctuation

"The Write@Vice"

Writing Lab Student Practice Tests

"Let's Talk Grammar" Podcast

Mini-Lessons for Grammar

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