Grammar and Style Boot Camp

Week 15 (December 2)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Concept  Dangling Modifier (here) and (here)

Week 14 (November 18)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Week 13 (November 11)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Concept Restrictive Clauses (here) and (here)

Week 12 (November 4)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Concept  Participle

Week 11 (October 28)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Week 10 (October 21)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Week 9 (October 14) 

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Week 8 (October 7)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Concept  Repetition and Parallel Structure (here) and (here) and (here)

Who vs. Whom (here)

Week 7 (September 30)

ACT  Practice

Sentence  Pattern

Concept  Appositive  here and here

Week 6 (September 23)

ACT  Practice

Sentence Pattern

Concept Appositive here and here

Week 5 (September 16)

ACT  Practice  Answer

Sentence Pattern  Answer

Concepts  Parallel Structure

Week 4 (September 9)

ACT  Practice  Answer

Sentence  Pattern  Exercise

Concepts  Asyndeton  Polysyndeton

Week 3 (September 2)

ACT  Practice  Answer

Sentence  Pattern  Exercise

Concepts  Colon

Week 2 (August 26)

ACT  Practice  Answer

Sentence  Pattern  Exercise

Concepts  Active Voice

Week 1 (August 19)

ACT  Practice  Answer

Sentence  Pattern  Exercise

Concepts   Compound Sentence  Semicolon  Conjunctive Adverb CoordinatingConjunction

Key Concepts

Key Grammar Terms

Key Vocabulary Practices

Active Voice (here) and (here)

Appositive (here) and (here)

Commas (here) and (here) and (here) and (here) and (here)

Conjunctive Adverb (THAMOS) (here) and (here)

Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS) (here) and (here)

Dangling Modifiers (here) and (here)

Parallel Structure (here) and (here) and (here)

Quotation Marks (here) and (here) and (here)

Restrictive Clauses (here) and (here)

Practices

501 Grammar

Khan Academy

Grammar Bytes Handouts

Handbooks

The Art of Styling Sentences

The Elements of Style

Bonus Activities

New York Times Copy Edit Quiz

Where Do Sentences Come From?