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Academic writing
Adverbs and Adverbials
Blogroll
Clauses & sentences
- How relative clauses work – E360K English Grammar – U. Texas
- Online quiz with answers – restrictive vs. nonrestrictive relative clauses
- Reduced Clauses (Chalk 'n Talk)
- Restrictive & non-restrictive relative (adjective) clauses
- Sentence fragments at the OWL
- Sentence Sense – Online Textbook
- Subordinate Clause Types at UCL
- The Main Clause at chompchomp
- Vincennes University – Connecting Words – very useful
Coherence & sentence cohesion
College & university courses & writing centers
College & university handouts
Commas
Conjunctions
- Coordinating Conjunctions at chompchomp
- FANBOYS – Grammar Ramblings
- FANBOYS and commas – Pam Nelson
- LIST of Conjunctive adverbs (furthermore, thus, therefore, in particular…) – Sierra College
- LIST of Subordinators and relative pronouns – Sierra College
- The myth of FANBOYS
- The Myth of FANBOYS – (pdf)
- The Subordinate Conjunction at chompchomp
Conjunctive adverbs
Constituent tests
Definitions
English as a Second Language
English papers
Essays and books
Fables
Folktales and Fairy Tales
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts – D.L. Ashliman
- Lit and Life: Fairy Tale Fridays
- Little Red Riding Hood & other tales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 333 – translated and/or edited by D.L. Ashliman
- Maria Tatar's 'Annotated Classic Fairy Tales' offers new insights on familiar old tales By Beth Potier
- Rapunzel – comparison of 2 versions – D.L. Ashliman
- Rapunzel – Fairy Tale Fridays
- Rapunzel – Grimm brothers
Gerunds, participles, infinitives
Grammar
- Absolutes – Richard Nordquist
- ATEG – Grammar Links
- chompchomp Grammar Bytes
- Complete grammar handbook recommended by Dartmouth College
- Elements of Sentence Construction – Towson
- English 2126 – Daniel Kies
- HyperGrammar – University of Ottawa
- Index to the CCC Guide to Grammar & Writing and Principles of Composition
- KS3 Grammar Units – Richard Hudson
- OWL – Grammar
- Restrictive & non-restrictive relative (adjective) clauses
- Richard Nordqiust on Grammar
- Traditional Grammar Terminology
Linguistics
Nouns & noun phrases
Online quizzes, exercises, & practice
- An Introduction to English Grammar 3rd Edition by Sidney Greenbaum & Gerald Nelson
- Linguistic Structure of Modern English – Brinton & Brinton
- Online Exercises for English 3321 – Rebecca A. Wall – Winston-Salem State University
- OWL at Purdue – Exercises
- Prentice-Hall online exercises and worksheets
- Short online quiz on restrictive v. nonrestrictive clauses w/answers
- Short online quiz on transitive & intransitive verbs – w/answers
- Towson online exercises & practice – with answers
Online textbook & HW
Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Pronouns
Punctuation
- Commas – Extended Rules – OWL
- Commas – Quick Guide – OWL
- How to punctuate a compound sentence
- Online quiz with answers – restrictive vs. nonrestrictive relative clauses
- Possessives
- Semicolon & Colon rules at Georgia College
- Semicolons, colons, & quotation marks at the OWL
- The (Carnivorous Commas) Page
- Vincennes University – Connecting Words – very useful
Quizzes
- * An Introduction to English Grammar – Extensive exercises
- * Internet Grammar of English – UCL – Extensive exercises
- Big Dog Bare Bones Grammar
- Clause Quiz
- Clause vs. phrase
- Commnet Quizzes
- English Grammar 101 – Online quizzes w/answers
- Grammar and Writing Drills at Dartmouth College
- Online quiz on relative clauses – with answers
- Online quiz w/answers – Adjective Phrase, Adjective Clause, Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive
- Prepositional phrases – adjective or adverb? Pearson
- Professor Pen's Simple Subject & Predicate Quiz
- Simple, Compound, Complex
- The Linguistic Structure of Modern English by Brinton & Brinton
- What is the subject?
- What is the verb?
Relative clauses
Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses
Sentence combining
Sentence diagramming
- Basics of Reed-Kellog diagrams
- CCC Diagram of Pledge of Allegiance
- CCC Diagramming Sentences
- Diagramming the Obama sentence
- Eugene Moutoux – Sentence Diagramming
- Index to the CCC Guide to Grammar & Writing and Principles of Composition
- Restrictive & non-restrictive relative (adjective) clauses
- Tree Diagrams
Sentence structure
Thesis statement
Verbs and verb phrases
Videos
Vocabulary
Writing
- CCC Guide to Grammar & Writing
- Essay Game at the OWL
- Grammar & Composition – Richard Lindquist at about.com
- Index to the CCC Guide to Grammar & Writing and Principles of Composition
- OWL – Thesis Statements
- OWL – Writing about literature
- Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant
- Paragraphs & Essays – Richard Nordquist at about.com
- Sentence Sense
- Writing in College – U. of Chicago
- X-1-2-3
Writing cohesive prose
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