Web Resources Chapter 3
 

    Diagnostic Quiz and Customized Practice for Grammar in General (same as last chapter.... same throughout the book)

    http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouble3.htm  

    Skills Specific to Chapter 3

    Spelling

    1. PowerPoint lesson:  Spelling  rules and suggestions
    2. Spelling quiz 1
    3. Spelling quiz 2
    4. Spelling quiz 3 (endings)
    5. Spelling quiz 4
    6. Spelling quiz 5
    7. Spelling quiz 6

Capitalization

    1. Capitalization:  http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/part1/six/caps_capital.html
    2. Practice Capitalization: http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/part1/six/caps_app1.html 
    3. Paragraph Practice (Capitalization): http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/part1/six/caps_app2.html 

     

     Sentence Combining 

    Coordinators, Subordinators, Transition Words

    1. Practice "So, Because" 
      http://iteslj.org/quizzes/lb/sobe.html       
    2. Practice 'but, except, and, however, even though, unless, plus, therefore, because, since, so' 
      http://depts.gallaudet.edu/ESL/comconnectives.htm       
      Dependent Clause Noun Phrases Test
    3. Practice After, Since, and For.  http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/vm/fb-afterforsince.html 

    4. Transition Words: Explanation: http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/conjunctions.html#conj

    5. Transition Words Quizzes : http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/9901/gc-connectives.html http://smccd.net/accounts/sevas/esl/gramcheck/9-10.html

 

Additional Practice with Transitional ("Linking") Words

List of transitions: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_transition.html 

Here is the menu for the series of activities you will do to learn about clauses, subordinating conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverbs (also called transition words).  There are THREE parts to each activity.  After you read the explanation of each concept, there are exercises to do: fill in the blank and (sometimes) sentence combination.  Do all of the activities at the website.

    Start here:  http://alci.lbcc.cc.ca.us/alci-dennis/coordination1/clauses%20and%20sentences.htm

       OR you can use each link below to go directly to the activities.

    Clauses and Sentences:

    Coordinating Conjunctions:

    Subordinating Conjunctions:

    Conjunctive Adverbs:

     

    If you need more.....This site can teach you a lot about combining sentences: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm 

 

Punctuation, Punctuation, and MORE Punctuation

    1. Punctuation between two independent clauses
    2. Rules for comma usage
    3. Punctuation Marks Besides the Comma
    4. Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions
    5. Commas with Introductory Elements
    6. Commas: Fill-in-the-blanks
    7. Comma Usage
    8. Punctuation: Fill-in-the-blanks
    9. Punctuation
    10. Punctuation II
    11. Punctuation III
    12. Punctuation IV
    13. Punctuation V
    14. Apostrophes
       
       

Paragraph Practice:  Descriptive Paragraphs

Write a paragraph describing ONE of these people.

   

 

 
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