Writing Center
Hacker's Exercises
| Exercise Description | Page number in Hacker's Rules for Writers (5th edition). |
Electronic Link to Hacker's website |
|---|---|---|
| Punctuation | 265 | |
| The comma | 266 | |
| Major uses of the comma | 280 | Exercise 32-1 Exercise 32-2 Exercise 32-3 |
| Unnecessary commas | 281 | |
| The semicolon | 287 | Exercise 34-1 Exercise 34-2 |
| The colon | 293 | Exercise 35-1 |
| The apostrophe | 296 | Exercise 36-1 |
| Quotation marks | 300 | Exercise 37-1 |
| End punctuation: the period, the quotation mark, and the exclamation point | 307 | |
| The dash, parentheses, brackerts, the ellipsis mark, the slash | 309 | Exercise 39-1 |
| Mechanics | 315 | |
| Abbreviations | 316 | Exercise 40-1 |
| Numbers | 319 | Exercise 41-1 |
| Italics (underlining) | 322 | Exercise 42-1 |
| Spelling | 326 | |
| The hyphen | 334 | Exercise 44-1 |
| Capital letters | 338 | Exercise 45-1 |
| Grammar | 155 | |
| Fragments, or incomplete sentences | 156 | Exercise 19-1 Exercise 19-2 Exercise 19-3 |
| Run-on sentences | 164 | Exercise 20-1 Exercise 20-2 Exercise 20-3 |
| Subject-verb agreement | 172 | Exercise 21-1 Exercise 21-2 Exercise 21-3 |
| Pronoun-antecedent agreement | 184 | Exercise 22-1 Exercise 22-2 Exercise 22-3 |
| Vague pronoun reference | 190 | Exercise 23-1 Exercise 23-2 Exercise 23-3 |
| Using adjectives and adverbs | 208 | Exercise 26-1 Exercise 26-2 |
