How to complete the Grammar Exercises
Go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx On the right side of the page, under “Register,” click “Student” Provide your personal data and choose a password. For “instructor’s e-mail address” use rightmire@linguistics.ucsb.edu. (These steps are necessary in order for your results to be sent to me electronically.) When you see “You are now registered and have Basic Student access to this site,” click on “continue.” You should have been returned to the main page, but now your name should appear in blue under the words “Welcome,” near the top of the page. Use the menus to navigate to the exercises you want to do. A list of exercises you must complete for full credit, along with their due dates, appears below. Whenever you are on a set of online exercises, The heading that appears at the top, in orange, directs you to the corresponding section of the book A Writer’s Reference. (For example, the heading “E-ex C4-1 Topic Sentences” on the web page directs you to section C-4 in the book.) It is recommended that you read through the appropriate sections of the book before you attempt the exercises, as your grade will be based on your percentage of correct answers. Note that you can re-take any section to get a better score. The next time you log in to the site, you will use your e-mail address as your login name.
Wednesday, April 8	Exercises 1
	Writing Exercises
	E-ex C4-1 Topic sentences
	E-ex C4-2 Transitions
	Research Exercises
	E-ex MLA 1-1 Thesis statements in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 2-1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 2-2 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 2-3 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 2-4 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 2-5 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 2-6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers
	Optional Exercises
	E-ex C1-1 Purpose and audience
	E-ex C2-1 Thesis statements
	E-ex C2-2 Introductions
	E-ex C3-1 Conducting a peer review
	E-ex C3-2 Choosing an appropriate point of view
Wednesday, April 15	Exercises 2
	E-ex MLA 3-1 Integrating sources in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 3-2 Integrating sources in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 3-3 Integrating sources in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 3-4 Integrating sources in MLA papers
	E-ex MLA 4-1 MLA documentation: in-text citations
	E-ex MLA 4-2 MLA documentation: in-text citations
	E-ex MLA 4-3 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources
	E-ex MLA 4-4 MLA documentation: works cited
	E-ex MLA 4-5 MLA documentation: works cited
	E-ex MLA 4-6 MLA documentation
	Optional Exercises
	E-ex LIT 2-1 Thesis statements in literature papers
Wednesday, April 22	Exercises 3
	Basic Grammar (E-ex B1-1 - E-ex B4-1)
	E-ex B1-1 Parts of speech: nouns
	E-ex B1-2 Parts of speech: pronouns
	E-ex B1-3 Parts of speech: verbs
	E-ex B1-4 Parts of speech: verbs
	E-ex B1-5 Parts of speech: adjectives
	E-ex B1-6 Parts of speech: adverbs
	E-ex B1-7 All parts of speech
	E-ex B2-1 Subjects
	E-ex B2-2 Subjects
	E-ex B2-3 Subject complements and direct objects
	E-ex B2-4 Indirect objects and object complements
	E-ex B2-5 Linking, transitive, and intransitive verbs
Wednesday, April 29	Exercises 4
	E-ex B3-1 Prepositional phrases
	E-ex B3-2 Prepositional phrases
	E-ex B3-3 Objects of prepositions
	E-ex B3-4 Verbal phrases
	E-ex B3-5 Verbal phrases
	E-ex B3-6 Subordinate clauses
	E-ex B3-7 Subordinate clauses
	E-ex B3-8 Subjects of subordinate clauses
	E-ex B3-9 Phrases and clauses
	E-ex B4-1 Sentence types
Wednesday, May 6	Exercises 5
	Grammar Exercises => ESL Challenges (E-ex E1-1 - E-ex E5-1)
	E-ex E1-1 Verb forms and tenses
	E-ex E1-2 Verb forms with modals
	E-ex E1-3 Conditional sentences
	E-ex E1-4 Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives
	E-ex E2-1 Omissions and repetitions
	E-ex E2-2 Sentence structure
	E-ex E3-1 Articles
	E-ex E3-2 Articles and types of nouns
	E-ex E4-1 Present vs. past participles
	E-ex E4-2 Order of cumulative adjectives
	E-ex E5-1 Prepositions showing time and place
Wednesday, May 13	Exercises 6
	Grammatical Sentences (E-ex G1-1 - E-ex G6-3)
	E-ex G1-1 Subject-verb agreement
	E-ex G1-2 Subject-verb agreement
	E-ex G1-3 Subject-verb agreement
	E-ex G2-1 Irregular verbs
	E-ex G2-2 Standard English verb forms
	E-ex G2-3 Verb tense and mood
	E-ex G3-1 Pronoun-antecedent agreement
	E-ex G3-2 Pronoun-antecedent agreement
	E-ex G3-4 Pronoun reference
	E-ex G3-5 Pronoun reference
	E-ex G3-6 Pronoun reference  (edit and compare)
Wednesday, May 20	Exercises 7
	E-ex G3-7 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me)
	E-ex G3-8 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me)
	E-ex G3-9 who and whom
	E-ex G3-10 Pronoun case: review
	E-ex G4-1 Adjectives and adverbs
	E-ex G4-2 Adjectives and adverbs
	E-ex G5-1 Sentence fragments
	E-ex G5-2 Sentence fragments  (edit and compare)
	E-ex G5-3 Sentence fragments  (edit and compare)
	E-ex G6-1 Run-on sentences
	E-ex G6-2 Run-on sentences  (edit and compare)
	E-ex G6-3 Run-on sentences  (edit and compare)
Wednesday, May 27	Exercises 8
	Punctuation (E-ex P1-1 - E-ex P7-1)
	E-ex P1-1 Major uses of the comma
	E-ex P1-2 Major uses of the comma
	E-ex P1-3 All uses of the comma
	E-ex P2-1 Misuses of the comma
	E-ex P3-1 The semicolon and the comma
	E-ex P3-2 The semicolon and the comma
	E-ex P4-1 The colon, the semicolon, and the comma
	E-ex P5-1 The apostrophe
	E-ex P6-1 Quotation marks
	E-ex P7-1 Other punctuation marks
	Mechanics (E-ex M2-1 - E-ex M6-1)
	E-ex M2-1 The hyphen
	E-ex M3-1 Capital letters
	E-ex M4-1 Abbreviations
	E-ex M5-1 Numbers
	E-ex M6-1 Italics (underlining)
Monday, June 1	Exercises 9
	Sentence Style (E-ex S1-1 - E-ex S6-3)
	E-ex S1-1 Parallelism
	E-ex S1-2 Parallelism
	E-ex S1-3 Parallelism  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S2-1 Needed words
	E-ex S2-2 Needed words  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S3-1 Misplaced modifiers
	E-ex S3-2 Misplaced modifiers  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S3-3 Dangling modifiers
	E-ex S3-4 Dangling modifiers  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S4-1 Shifts: person and number
	E-ex S4-2 Shifts: tense
	E-ex S4-3 Shifts
	E-ex S4-4 Shifts  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S5-1 Mixed constructions
	E-ex S5-2 Mixed constructions  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S6-1 Choppy sentences
	E-ex S6-2 Choppy sentences  (edit and compare)
	E-ex S6-3 Subordination
Wednesday, June 3	Exercises 10
	Word Choice (E-ex W2-1 - E-ex W5-3)
	E-ex W2-1 Wordy sentences
	E-ex W2-2 Wordy sentences  (edit and compare)
	E-ex W2-3 Wordy sentences  (edit and compare)
	E-ex W3-1 Active vs. passive verbs
	E-ex W3-2 Active vs. be verbs
	E-ex W3-3 Active verbs  (edit and compare)
	E-ex W4-1 Jargon
	E-ex W4-2 Sexist language
	E-ex W5-1 Misused words
	E-ex W5-2 Standard idioms
	E-ex W5-3 Clichés and mixed metaphors
(for extra credit, with instructor’s prior approval only	Exercises 11
	ESL Help => Exercises => Verbs
	H1-1 Verb forms and tenses
	H1-2 Verb forms and tenses
	H1-3 Verb forms and tenses
	H1-4 Modal verbs
	H1-5 Passive verb forms
	H1-6 Negative verb forms
	H1-7 Conditional sentences
	H1-8 Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives
	=> Participles
	H4-1 Present and past participles
(for extra credit, with instructor’s prior approval only)	Exercises 12
	ESL Help => Exercises => Sentence Structure
	H2-1 Linking verbs
	H2-2 Missing subjects
	H2-3 Unnecessary words
	H2-4 Placement of adverbs
	=> Articles
	H3-1 Articles
	H3-2 Articles
	H3-3 Articles
	=> Prepositions
	H5-1 Prepositions showing time and place
	H5-2 Preposition combinations