tips for how to improve your grammar skills :) let's try!

40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation

After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You're excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.

Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double negatives and run-on sentences colliding with each other.

Now I am no grammar whiz but I know a good resource when I see it. Purdue University maintains an online writing laband I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.

Learn and enjoy!

Adjectives and adverbs

A or An?: with exercise and answer key

Adjective or Adverb?: with 2 exercises and answer keys

Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Using Articles ( A/An/The ): with 2 exercises and answer keys

Nouns
A Little Help with Capitals

Count and NonCount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words): with 2 exercises and answer keys

Count and NonCount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives): with exercise and answer key

Prepositions
Prepositions of Direction: To, On(to), In(to): with exercise and answer key

Prepositions of Location: At, In, On: with exercise and answer key

Prepositions of Time, of Place, and to Introduce Objects

Pronouns
Using Pronouns Clearly

Pronoun Case

Sentence structure
Appositives: with exercise and answer key

Dangling Modifiers

Independent and Dependent Clauses (definition)

Making Subject and Verbs Agree

Parallel Structure

Run-ons, Comma splices, and Fused Sentences

Sentence Fragments: with 3 exercises and answer keys

Sentence Punctuation Patterns

Some Strategies for Improving Sentence Clarity

Verbs
Active/Passive Verbs

Irregular Verbs

Sequence of Tenses

Tense Consistency:w with an exercise and answer key

Two-Part (Phrasal) Verbs- (Idioms)

Verb Tenses

Verbs with Helpers (Perfectives and Auxiliaries)

Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives

Voice and Mood

Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
Apostrophes with exercise and answer key

Quotation Marks: with exercise and answer key

Commas
Commas after Introductions: with exercise and answer key

Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences : with exercise and answer key

Commas with Essential and Non-essential Elements: with3 exercises and answer keys

Proofreading for Commas

Using Commas: with 5 exercises and answer keys

Hyphens
Using Hyphens

Other punctuation
Brief Overview of Punctuation: Semicolons, Colons, Parentheses, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics: with exercise and answer key

Sentence Punctuation
Sentence Punctuation Patterns

Run-ons, Comma splices, and Fused Sentences

Spelling
Spelling: Sound-Alike Words

Spelling: Accept/Except and Affect/Effect : with 2 exercises and answer keys

Spelling: i/e rules: with 2 exercises and answer keys
Spelling: Suffixes–- ible vs. —able : with exercise and answer key
Spelling: Noun Plurals