Writing Assistance for Students

The following links lead to a series of downloadable practice tests that are designed to help you master the fundamentals of English. The tests are available in Microsoft Word (.doc) format as individual files or in as single .zip file, containing all of the tests.

1. End Punctuation and Capitalization
2. Look-Alikes/Sound-Alikes and Apostrophes
3. Subject-Verb Agreement
4. Past Tense, Past Participles and Fixed-Form Helping Verbs
5. Coordination, Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbs
6. Subordination
7. Coordination, Subordination and Semicolon Test
8. Avoiding Run-ons and Comma Splices
9. Fragments and Sentences
10. Commas
11. Pronouns
12. Complete .zip file of all the practice tests

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