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We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as...
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The lessons in this tutorial cover the rules and strategies needed by college students to identify and correct common punctuation errors in their academic writing. Students will find instruction and practice detailing clauses and phrases, inside punctuation, quotation marks, italics, the apostrophe, and more.
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This first instantly scored practice can help college students looking to strengthen their core English skills for their classes and assignments. Includes 15 questions that cover essential punctuation skills such as comma placement and proper use of semicolons, apostrophes, periods.
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This second instantly scored practice can help college students looking to strengthen their core English skills for their classes and assignments. Includes 15 questions that cover essential punctuation skills such as comma placement and proper use of semicolons, apostrophes, periods.
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Use your computer to master the rules of grammar. This 40-question online practice exercise covers capitalization, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, word usage, and other important rules of grammar. Instant score report, personalized analysis of errors, and detailed explanations of right and wrong answers result in improved grammar skills.
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Use your computer to master the rules of grammar. This second 40-question online practice exercise covers capitalization, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, word usage, and other important rules of grammar. Instant score report, personalized analysis of errors, and detailed explanations of right and wrong answers result in improved grammar skills.
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Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage comma...
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You can't believe everything you hear! Did you know that a single word can have many different meanings? Sometimes two words that sound alike can be spelled completely differently! Ptolemy the Pterodactyl is back to show us all how absurd and fun language can be when homophones, homonyms, and tricky punctuation are at play.
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