Attention Shoreline students: You may have seen some of these links from the Shoreline Lab website. Keep clicking on others, there are many great websites to practice with. Please email at efriedenson@shoreline.edu me if any of the direct links on this page are no longer working. Also, please email me if you have any questions about the exercises. Make sure to copy the examples that are causing confusion. It will make it easier for me to help you.

Punctuation, Fragments and Run-ons

1) For excellent explanation and practice, click on the OWL Online Writing Lab and go to “Sentence Structure” and “Punctuation.”

2) Then go to the OWL Online Writing Lab for the Practice Exercise Index, and go to “Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling. There are many great exercises here.

3) Grammar Bytes has some very good exercises at the following places:

a) Comma Splices & Fused Sentences •

b) Fragments •

c) Commas

4) Some exercises from a4esl.org

Clauses

· If Clauses (Vera Mello) - HTML-only

Conjunctions

· Conjunctions - Level 1 (Vera Mello) - HTML-only

· Conjunctions - Level 2 (Vera Mello) - HTML-only

· Connectives (Giovana Campos) - HTML-only

· And So ... (Vera Mello) - JavaScript, [M] 15 Questions

5) See Shoreline’s website and look at “Fragments” on the left, and “Coordination/Subordination” down the page.