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Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation and Diction study guide
The following is a guide originally produced for studying for the Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, and Diction exam given by the College of Communication at the University of Alabama. The guide is...
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1. Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term in 1864, but he did not serve out his full term. This is a compound sentence – a sentence with two independent clauses. They should be connected with a...
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Name This exercise consists of 10 sentences. Re-type each sentence inserting commas in the correct locations. Print this out when you have finished or follow the directions of your instructor in...
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Commas exercise 02 1. The girl stared at him with a sad, longing look in her eyes. When two equal adjectives appear before a noun, they should be separated by a comma. In this case, the adjectives...
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Name This exercise consists of 10 sentences. For each sentence you should decide if the subject agrees with the verb. If so, type the word “Correct” in the space below the sentence; if not, write the...
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Subject-verb agreement exercise 01 1. None of the members of the first team are playing in the fourth quarter. Words such as none, anyone, everybody, each, either, neither and one are singular when...
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MC 102 Lecture 02: Grammar and style
Grammar, spelling, punctuation. • These were all invented by sadistic junior high school English teachers to terrorize students and confuse adults. • No one can learn all those rules and terms, and...
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Avoid the exclamation mark! (audio)
Deeply into the process of revising the eighth edition of Writing for the Mass Media into the ninth edition, I have just composed the following paragraph on exclamation marks: The exclamation mark is...
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This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (4,140) on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. Hi, Last week’s question: Were there no Americans before 1776? An answer came in from newsletter reader and...
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God save the Queen! God, save the Queen! The presence or absence of punctuation — particularly the ubiquitous comma — can change the meaning of a sentence. And it can have massive consequences. This...
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