Practice Comp Skills

Practice Composition Skills

It is never enough to rely on your memory of terms and vocabulary. You have to be able to demonstrate that you can apply your understanding of the skills and concepts, too. The exercises below require that you apply your skills to revise and edit sentences, paragraphs, and essays for a variety of errors.

Copy of the Final Exam Study Guide

Composition Practice Set 1A

Editing for C.U.P.S. (Exercise 1)
Editing for C.U.P.S. (Exercise 2)
Editing for C.U.P.S. (Fragments and Run-ons)
Editing for C.U.P.S. (Fixing Run-ons)

Composition Practice 1B (Capitalization

Editing for C.U.P.S. (Capitalization Game)
Editing for Capitalization (Gr. 9 Quiz)
Editing for Capitalization (Gr. 10 Quiz)
Editing for Capitalization (Gr. 11 Quiz)
Editing for Capitalization (Gr. 12 Quiz)

Composition Practice Set 2

Revising for Details (Exercise A)
Revising for Details (Exercise B)

Composition Practice Set 3

Revising and Editing (Time4WritingGames)
Revising and Editing (Norton/Write) Choose from various exercises and read the instructions for sentence revising.
Revising and Editing (Exercise 13)

Composition Practice Set 4

Revising through Coordination (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.)
Revising through Subordination (because, if, when, etc)

Composition Practice Set 5

Using Transitions Correctly

Composition Practice Set 6 (Do not use)

Editing and Revising an Essay ("Victorian Letter Writing": 13 Multiple Choice Questions)

Composition Practice Set 7

Composition Practice Set 8

Editing for Apostrophes (Exercise 1)
Editing for Apostrophes (Exercise 2)
Editing for Apostrophes (Exercise 3)
Editing for Apostrophes (Exercise 4)
Editing for Apostrophes (Challenging Quiz)
Editing for Commas (Review of Basic Rules)
Editing for Punctuation (Quiz w/review of rules)
Editing - Sentences, Fragments, Commas, S/V Agreement (Norton/Write) Choose any from the list.

Composition Practice Set 9

Composition Practice Set 10

Composition Practice Set 11