Grammar Drills

Agreement & Pronoun Reference

• Possesive pronouns with gerunds [Answer]
• Faulty pronoun reference [Answer]
• Personal pronoun case [Answer]
• Subject/Verb agreement with intervening expression [Answer]
• Subject/Verb agreement with subject modified by prepositional phrase [Answer]
• Pronoun/Antecedent agreement (number) [Answer]
• Agreement of pronouns with verbs and adjectives [Answer]

Apostrophe Use

• Apostrophes in possessives [Answer]
• Apostrophes in special plurals [Answer]
• Apostrophes in contractions [Answer]
• The Apostrophe: Review or Diagnosis [Answer]

Dangling Elements

• Danglers: infinitives [Answer]
• Danglers: -ed participles [Answer]
• Danglers: -ing participles [Answer]

Paragraph Strength

• Identification of topic sentences [Answer]
• Identification of topic sentences (essay) [Answer]
• Paragraph coherence and unity [Answer]
• Paragraph: detecting irrelevant sentences [Answer]
• Paragraph: scrambled sentences [Answer]
• Paragraph: tense shifting [Answer]
• Transitional words [Answer]
• Mariginal summary [Answer]
• Beginning a new paragraph [Answer]

Punctuation

• Adjective clause [Answer]
• Appositives [Answer]
• Colon vs. semicolon [Answer]
• Commas [Answer]
• Commas, semicolons, & periods [Answer]
• Comma Splice (1) [Answer]
• Comma Splice (2) [Answer]
• Coordinating adverbs [Answer]
• Intrusions [Answer]
• Noun clauses [Answer]

Sentence Strength

• Coordinating adverbs [Answer]
• Dependent clauses (1) [Answer]
• Dependent clauses (2) [Answer]
• Fragments (1) [Answer]
• Fragments (2) [Answer]
• Fragments with "be" [Answer]
• Fragments with -ing [Answer]
• Run-ons [Answer]
• Sentences: subject/verb [Answer]
• Subject/Verb agreement (1) [Answer]
• Subject/Verb agreement (2) [Answer]
• Types of sentences [Answer]

Spelling

• Doubling the final consonant [Answer]
• Hyphens [Answer]
• Hyphens Review [Answer]
• Irregular plurals: -is [Answer]
• Irregular plurals: -on [Answer]

Stylistics

• Active and passive voice [Answer]
• Appositives [Answer]
• Comparisons [Answer]
• Double possessives [Answer]
• Parallelism [Answer]
• Participles [Answer]
• Split infinitives [Answer]

Words Commonly Confused

• Affect/Effect [Answer]
• As vs. Like [Answer]
• Conscience vs. Conscious [Answer]
• Its vs. It's [Answer]
• Lie vs. Lay [Answer]
• Rise vs. Raise [Answer]
• Than vs. Then [Answer]
• They're vs. Their vs. There [Answer]

General, Non-Indexed Drills

• How to Write a Precis