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College Profiles -
College Profiles provides answers to the most frequently asked undergraduate questions. This directory will help you locate the best university to meet your academic, personal, and professional goals.

Possessive Pronouns -
A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like all other pronouns, it substitutes a noun phrase, and can prevent its repetition.

Proper Nouns -
Proper nouns name specific places, people, and objects. Proper nouns and words derived from them are always capitalized.

The Intransitive Verb -
An intransitive verb is a verb that has only one argument, that is, a verb with valency equal to one.

The Transitive Verb -
In English grammar, a transitive verb is a verb that requires both a subject and one or more objects.

Auxiliary and Helping Verbs -
In linguistics, an auxiliary or helping verb is a verb whose function it is to give further semantic information about the main or full verb which follows it.

Past Participles and English Grammar -
The past participle, sometimes known as the perfect participle, which is usually the same as the past-tense form, especially for verbs whose past-tense form ends in “-ed”.

Present Participle and English Grammar -
The present participle, also known as the imperfect participle, which is formed by adding the suffix “-ing” to a verb.

The Subjunctive Mood -
The subjunctive mood is a grammatical mood of the verb that is subjective, from the person's viewpoint that expresses wishes, commands, emotion, possibility, judgment, necessity and statements that are contrary to fact.

Blank Verses -
Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme.

Commas -
A comma is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.

Exclamation Mark -
An exclamation mark is a punctuation mark, and like the full stop (or period), it marks the end of a sentence; usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feeling.

Periods -
A full stop or period, is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages.

Quotation Marks -
Quotation marks, also called quotes or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase.

Semicolons -
A semicolon binds two sentences more closely than they would be if separated by a period. It is also used as a stronger division than a comma to make meaning clear in a sentence where commas are already being used for other purposes.

Dangling Modifiers -
In grammar a dangling modifier or misplaced modifier is a word/phrase that modifies a clause in an ambiguous manner. Learn about dangling modifiers and other grammatical errors.

Split Infinitives -
A split infinitive is a grammatical construction in the English language where a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, occurs between the marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of the verb.

Fragmented Clauses -
Many fragmented clauses can be corrected by attaching the clause to a nearby sentence. If the fragmented clause cannot be combined, the sentence must be rewritten.

Fragmented Phrases -
Fragmented phrases, like subordinate clauses, are sometimes confused for sentences.

Sentence Fragments -
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence.

Run-on Sentences -
A run-on sentence is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses are joined without punctuation or conjunctions.

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