MCCC Students' Pages

This section is specifically designed to assist students in my English 101 classes at Mercer County Community College.  To view a topic, click on the link in the index below.  The first link is to current announcements relating to the class.

The other material will help you to prepare for quizzes and skills tests.  More significantly, however, these are the rules that you should follow to ensure that your writing is grammatically and mechanically correct.

Recommended approach:  Select a topic, study it, and then go to the related sample questions and answers on that topic.

  ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
  Resources
 
  Agreement of Subjects and Verbs: Basics
 
  Subjects and Verbs: Pointers
 
  Skills Test: Sample Questions and Answers -- Subject-Verb Agreement
 
  Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement: Basics
 
  Skills Test: Sample Questions and Answers -- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
 
  Skills Test: Sample Questions and Answers -- Pronoun Case
 
  Pronoun Case: Basics
 
  Skills Test: Sample Questions and Answers -- Apostrophes
 
  Apostrophes for Possession: Basics
 
  Sentence Punctuation: Basics
 
  Sentence Punctuation: Avoiding Comma Splices
 
  Skills Test: Sample Sentence Punctuation Exercise
 
  Sentence Punctuation: More Pointers
 
  Skills Test: Sample Sentence Punctuation Exercise -- Answers
 
  Sentence Fragments: Basics
 
  Skills Test: Sample Exercise -- Sentence Fragments
 
  Technology -- The Dark Side
 

Students who spot errors on these pages should send me an e-mail message identifying the error.  The first student to report any given error will receive extra credit in the form of 10 (ten) points to be added to total quiz scores before they are averaged at the end of the semester.