6: Grammar, Sentence Structure, and Style
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- The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.
- 6.1.1: Punctuation
- 6.1.1.1: Apostrophes
- 6.1.1.2: Brackets
- 6.1.1.3: Colons
- 6.1.1.4: Commas
- 6.1.1.5: Dashes
- 6.1.1.6: Ellipses
- 6.1.1.7: Exclamation Marks
- 6.1.1.8: Hyphens
- 6.1.1.9: Parentheses
- 6.1.1.10: Periods
- 6.1.1.11: Question Marks
- 6.1.1.12: Quotation Marks
- 6.1.1.13: Semicolons
- 6.1.1.14: Try It Out
- 6.1.1.15: Putting It All Together
- 6.1.1.16: Time to Write
- 6.1.2: Parts of Speech
- 6.1.2.1: Nouns
- 6.1.2.2: Pronouns
- 6.1.2.3: Verbs
- 6.1.2.4: Adjectives
- 6.1.2.5: Adverbs
- 6.1.2.6: Propositions
- 6.1.2.7: Articles
- 6.1.2.8: Conjunctions
- 6.1.2.9: Interjections
- 6.1.2.10: Try It Out
- 6.1.2.11: Putting It All Together
- 6.1.2.12: Time to Write
- 6.1.3: 20 Most Common Grammar Errors
- 6.1.3.1: Wrong Word
- 6.1.3.2: Comma After Introductory Element
- 6.1.3.3: Documentation Common Error
- 6.1.3.4: Pronoun Reference
- 6.1.3.5: Spelling
- 6.1.3.6: Quotation Error
- 6.1.3.7: Unnecessary Comma
- 6.1.3.8: Capitalization
- 6.1.3.9: Missing Word
- 6.1.3.10: Faulty Sentence Structure
- 6.1.3.11: Missing Comma with Nonrestrictive Element
- 6.1.3.12: Verb Tense Shift
- 6.1.3.13: Missing Comma in Compound Sentence
- 6.1.3.14: Apostrophe Errors
- 6.1.3.15: Run-On Sentences
- 6.1.3.16: Comma Splice
- 6.1.3.17: Pronoun Agreement
- 6.1.3.18: Poorly Integrated Quote
- 6.1.3.19: Hyphens
- 6.1.3.20: Sentence Fragment
- 6.1.3.21: Try It Out
- 6.1.3.22: Putting It All Together
- 6.1.3.23: Time to Write
- 6.2: The Anatomy of a Sentence
- 6.2.1: Subjects and Predicates, Finding the Subject
- 6.2.2: Parsing the Constituents of a Sentence, Sentence Construction
- 6.2.3: Identifying Fragments and Run-On Sentences, Avoid Sentence Fragments
- 6.2.4: Identifying Fragments and Run-On Sentences, Avoid Run-on Sentences
- 6.2.5: Identifying Fragments and Run-On Sentences, Fragments and Run-ons
- 6.2.6: Subject-Verb Agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement
- 6.4: Finishing Touches
- 6.4.1: Unit Activities, Revise Your Unit Essay
- 6.4.2: Unit Activities, Format Your Unit Essay Using MLA
- 6.4.3: Unit Essay, Unit Essay
- 6.4.4: Academic Writing Style, Sentence Patterns
- 6.4.5: Academic Writing Style, Wordiness and Concision
- 6.4.6: Academic Writing Style, Parallel Structure
- 6.4.7: Active vs. Passive Voice, Passive Voice
- 6.4.8: Active vs. Passive Voice, Avoid Unnecessary "to be" Verbs
- 6.4.9: Word Use, What Word Would Be More Appropriate Here?
- 6.4.10: Reviewing, Revising, and Editing Drafts, Editing
- 6.4.11: Word Use, Use Language That Is Sensitive to Your Audience
- 6.4.12: Reviewing, Revising, and Editing Drafts, Revising Drafts
- 6.4.13: Reviewing, Revising, and Editing Drafts, Reorganizing Drafts
- 6.4.14: Reviewing, Revising, and Editing Drafts, Read Your Paper Aloud to Check for Cohesiveness