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General Writing Guides and Grammar Links
Grammars with Quizzes and Exercises
Usage and Style Guides
Common Errors
Punctuation and Mechanics
ESL

General Writing Guides and Grammar Links

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html
  Handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Part of the larger OWL site that is one of the most widely admired writing resources available.
  
  
• http://www.clearenglish.net/grammar.htm
  A wide-ranging compilation of grammar sites on a variety of topics, including everything from adverbs and adjectives to verb tense and voice.
  
  
• Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant
  Advice on how to write an academic paper; including sections on grammar for writing, basic sentence concepts, and exercises.
  
  
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
  A guide to all aspects of the writing process, including a detailed section on grammar, with exercises and quizzes.
  
  
• The Internet Grammar of English
  A free online course in English grammar intended primarily for university undergraduates; does not assume prior knowledge of grammar.
  
  
• Modern English Grammar
  Hypertext presentation of grammatical terms and concepts.
  
  
• Grammar Station
  A guide to the use of specific grammatical terms, including a grammar guid and grammar and spell checkers.
  
  
• Webgrammar
  Definitions, tips, common mistakes, writing resources.
  
  
• Guide to Grammar and Style
  A miscellany of explanations, comments on, and suggestions about grammar and usage developed by a Rutgers professor for classes; highly readable and extensive.
  
  
• Sentence Diagrams
  Examples of and explanations about sentence diagramming.
  
  

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Grammars with Quizzes and Exercises

• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
  A collection of grammar, punctuation, and capitalization rules, with quizzes.
  
  
• Traditional English Grammar
  Terms, concepts, and exercises.
  
  
• Clear English Grammar
  Lists of additional Web resources on grammatical terms, parts of speech; includes worksheets and exercises.
  
  
• Grammar Bytes
  Interactive grammar review; includes terms, exercises, handouts, tips and rules.
  
  
• Grammar Help
  Interactive language exercises, grammar resources, and usage advice.
  
  
• Daily Grammar
  An archive of grammar lessons in the form of questions and a quiz on the sixth day. All lessons available in archive section.
  
  

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Usage and Style Guides

• The Writer's Place: The Write Stuff: Focus on Usage and Grammar
  Weekly tips on grammar and usage for writers. (Password-protected, but free).
  
  
• Strunk and White, The Elements of Style
  The classic Strunk and White reference book in searchable online format. Concise compilation of the principal requirements of plain English style, focusing on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
  
  
• Fowler, The King’s English
  Another classic reference providing usage rules and a wealth of examples and focusing, like Strunk and White, on common errors.
  
  
• InfoPlease: Writing and Language
  Interesting information about language$#151;but beware the pop-ups.
  
  
• Get It Write
  Collection of grammar and usage tips.
  
  

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Common Errors

• Common Errors in English
  List and discussion of dozens of usage errors and non-errors.
  
  
• 11 Rules of Writing
  A concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation, intended as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills. Examples, explanations, a glossary, and additional Web links.
  
  

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Punctuation and Mechanics

• Punctuation Made Simple
  Explanations and illustrations of punctuation
  
  
  
• A Concise Guide to Grammar and Style
  Explanations and illustrations of the basic conventions of American capitalization, italicization, and punctuation. (Part of a larger Writing and Language Infoplease site.)
  
  
  

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ESL

• Dave’s ESL Page
  The most popular general guide for ESL students and teachers; includes links to grammar sites, as well as sections on topics of particular interest including idioms and phrasal verbs.
  
  
  
• Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  
  
• EnglishClub
  ESL resources, concepts, and terms; interactive Quizzes.
  
  
  
• Your English Site
  Subscription site ($5 per month) intended for ESL learners in business and the professions; includes lessons, terms and concepts, exercises. (Much can be accessed free of charge.)
  
  
  
• Online English Grammar
  Explanations of grammatical terms and concepts. Includes a “test center.”
  
  
• CNN Student News and Worldview for ESL
  Grammar and vocabulary exercises based on news stories.
  

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