This page contains grammar links for students to read online, grammar handouts available as PDF files, powerpoint demonstrations on grammar, and the Eternal Hall of Grammar Champions.

You can download PDF files to your computer and then print them out or read them using the free program Adobe Acrobat. If you don't have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you can download it here, for free!

The files at the bottom of the page are Powerpoint demonstrations that Dr. Wheeler uses in his English 101 class. Carson-Newman students can download these and view them on our lab computers.

Grammar Weblinks On This Site Clauses and Phrases Conjunctive Adverbs Dangling Modifier Dependent and Independent Clauses (TBA) Diagramming Sentences The English Lesson (anonymous poem) Moods Nominalization Parallelism Parts of Speech Passive Voice Prepositions: Dr. Wheeler's famous Ninja-in-a-boat rule (TBA). Pronoun Errors Punctuation Marks (TBA) Pure Conjunctions Stacked Adjectives and Adverbs Subjunctive Mood Subordinating Conjunctions Viking Grammar (English 328) Diagramming Sentences Kolln and Funk's Ten Sentence Patterns Why English Is Hard to Learn (humorous) Widows/Orphans (and other obscure typesetting terms) More to Come!

Grammar Handouts Aid in Punctuation Clichés and Trite Phrasing Exercise Commas Commas and Semicolons Common Problems (General) Common Problems (Citation) Common Proofreading Marks (This handout may not be very legible on a computer screen, but if you print it out, it should be readable. It shows the marks and explains the abbreviations I will put on papers as I grade.) Confusing Homonyms Conjunctive Adverbs Dangling Modifiers Passive Voice Exercise #1 Passive Voice Exercise #2: Passive Bloodshed Passive Voice Exercise #3: Dracula converted to Passive Voice Passive Voice Guide Plagiarism Prepositions Punctuation Patterns: A Chart Punctuating Titles: A Chart Secrets of the Subjunctive Mood Serial Commas: The Great Controversy More to come!

Powerpoint Demonstrations on Grammar: These powerpoint demonstrations were created by Charles Darling and Elene Sandorff, who have given me permission to use them here. Click here for information on viewing these Powerpoint Demonstrations. They are large files, with the size listed beside each one. Special thanks to Professor Darling and Ms. Sandorff for their willingness to share. Clauses: Essential Building Blocks (180k) Avoiding Sentence Fragments (216k) Avoiding Run-on Sentences (392k) Diagramming Sentences (196k) Some Spelling Rules (624k HUGE FILE!) A Capital Idea (148k) Paragraph (Basic Structure) (296k) The English House of Commas (156k) Our Friend, the Semicolon (224k) The Colon: Sentence Gateway (148k) Subject-Verb Agreement (288k) The Mighty Apostrophe (92k) The Parts of Speech (888k, HUGE FILE!) Plurals: A Guide to Creating Them for ESL students (240k)

Eternal Grammar Champions And Their Olympian Hall of Fame Current Term! Past Terms! External Grammar Links: Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts (an external webpage)