Appositives
"An appositive is a noun or a pronoun-often with modifiers-set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it." On this site, clear and colorful graphics demonstrate the correct use of appositives and correct punctuation of appositives. After reviewing the explanations, complete the exercise. Answers to the exercise are available online.

Simple Sentence: Appositive
In this interactive exercise, complete each sentence with an appositive from a choice of four options. After you finish the exercise, you can correct your answers.

Participles
Read The American Heritage Book of English Usage's definitions and explanations of participles, dangling participles, participles and absolute constructions, participles as prepositions, and participles as adjectives.

Verbal (and Other) Phrases
This interactive exercise reviews different parts of speech and phrases. Read each sentence carefully and identify the part of speech or usage for the underlined word or phrase. You can click to check your answer. A link is also provided to review the basic parts of speech.

Dangling Modifiers
Read The American Heritage Book of English Usage's definitions and explanations of dangling modifiers. Excellent examples are included on this site.

Review: Identifying Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers
Read each sentence carefully to identify whether the sentence has a dangling modifier or is correct. Links to other helpful sites are included.

Dangling Modifiers
"A modifier describes a noun or a verb. It can be single word, such as an adverb or an adjective, or it can be a phrase. A modifier is most effective when it is placed next to the word it modifies, or in close proximity." This site includes examples of sentences with dangling modifiers followed by solutions.

Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Review two rules that govern the use of modifiers. Then complete the interactive practice exercise and the test. You can get your scores online for both the exercise and the test.

Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
This site discusses different kinds of misplaced words, phrases, and clauses and how to correct each. It also includes information about split infinitives.

Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
For this interactive exercise, click on the sentence that has a dangling modifier. A link is provided to review the use of modifiers. You can correct your answers online.

Using Commas Correctly
Review sixteen rules and examples for using commas correctly in your writing.

Parallel Structure
Learn how to form parallel structures by using words, phrases, columns, and lists. Helpful examples and strategies demonstrate correct and incorrect use of parallel structures.

Parallelism
Choose one of five sentences that lack grammatically correct parallelism. Before you take this interactive quiz, you can go to a link to review parallelism. You can correct your work online.

Parallel Structure
Select the sentence that illustrates the proper use of parallel constructions. You can get a score after you complete the exercise.

Second Exercise in Parallelism
"The following sentences could be improved with the use of proper parallel construction. Under each sentence, a text area is provided where you can rewrite the sentence." You can compare your answers to this Web site's answers.

Five Uncommonly Serious Mistakes
Read about the five serious mistakes and their correct versions. This site includes using objective case pronouns as subjects, using double negatives, not capitalizing proper nouns, using faulty parallelism, and using subject-case pronouns as objects.

Combining Sentences
Combine the sentences by writing your answers in the text boxes. You can compare your answers to those that are provided in the answer key, or you can email your answers to your instructor.

Second Quiz on Combining Sentences
Combine the sentences by writing your answers in the text boxes. You can compare your answers to those that are provided in the answer key, or you can email your answers to your instructor.

Sentence Variety
Review techniques for combining sentences to eliminate short, choppy sentences. Review techniques for sentence combining with relative pronouns, participles, and prepositions.

Quiz on Sentence Types
Read each sentence carefully. Then decide if the sentence is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. You can check your answers online.

Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement
Before you begin the exercise, you can click on a link to review sentence variety. Rewrite each sentence inside the text box. Click to compare your answers with the answer key.

Fragments
Review definitions and examples of fragments along with correction methods.

The Fragment
Read the guidelines for recognizing fragments. Study the examples and the methods of correction.

Sentence Fragments
"Fragments are incomplete sentences. Usually, fragments are pieces of sentences that have become disconnected from the main clause." A comprehensive chart reviews the different kinds of fragments and possible revisions.

The Function of Phrases
Review the definitions and examples of verb phrases, noun phrases, noun phrases using verbals, adjective phrases, and adverb phrases.

Using Clauses as Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs
This comprehensive site reviews the use of clauses. Independent, dependent, noun, adjective, and adverb clauses and examples are included on this site.

Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts: Word Functions and Usage Notes
This comprehensive site reviews many of the key elements of sentences. Charts with interactive links and links to additional information are included.

Quiz on Modifier Placement
This interactive exercise provides practice identifying sentences with the most effective placement of modifiers. After you complete the exercise, you can get your score.

Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement
Before you begin the exercise, you can click on a link to review sentence variety. Rewrite each sentence inside the text box. Click to compare your answers with the answer key.