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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Within Sentence Punctuation Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reference site provides within-sentence punctuation. This site accompanies the Praxis Core Reading Test.
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Illinois State University: Punctuation Made Simple: The Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page from "Punctuation Made Simple," features comma use. Brush up on your comma skills with plenty of examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Punctuation Between 2 Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is the correct punctuation between two independent clauses? Use this site to learn more about the rules to follow.
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Colgate University: Clauses, Conjunctions, and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial explains constructing sentences using independent and dependent clauses with correct punctuation.
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Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides the answers to six frequently asked questions regarding punctuation. For example, "Should I use a comma before AND in a series?" The question "Do commas and periods go inside our outside the closing quotation mark?" is...
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Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 11.1: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that demonstrate how to identify and correctly use commas with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and introductory...
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PBS

Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
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Marking His Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article proposes a theory for the way the English playwright spelled and puncuated his name with a colon: Ben:Jonson.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 13.1: Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and technical writing; it includes capitalization and punctuation. It provides links to several sites having to do with punctuation and capitalization rules.
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Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
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TES Global

Tes: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'brien

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this unit, students will investigate Robert C. O'Brien's book, Z for Zechariah. Students will engage in punctuation practice, review parts of speech, and will answer comprehension questions.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This instructional...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Semicolon Use Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Semicolons.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how to use quotation marks correctly to quote poetry, prose, and long and short quotes. Also, find guidelines on using quotation marks when writing dialogue and when using other punctuation.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The King's English: Grammar and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of this chapter from the 1908 book by H.W. Fowler provides instructions for punctuating adjectival and adverbial clauses. However, there is a lot of other material on this page to scroll through.
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University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow: Critical Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is designed to be used by psychology students at the university level, but it provides helpful instruction for anyone writing critical reviews of non-fiction. Instruction includes everything from how to be critical to...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Mla Works Cited Page: Basic Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the rules for writing an MLA Works Cited page and provides examples of each type of entry.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Conventions

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Sharpen your use of the formal conventions of English with this self-guided learning module. The module focuses on formal and informal language, making pronouns agree with their antecedents, and common spelling and grammar errors. At the...
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Book Units Teacher: Teaching Comma Rules

For Students 5th Standards
Lots of ideas for teaching Grade 5 students about commas. Includes an anchor chart showing the comma rules they need to understand, four videos, an idea for making a comma rules booklet, and links to additional resources.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...

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