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Academic writing

  • Academic Writer in Hong Kong – "a Nine Stage Course designed to help you write or edit your first academic papers at University"
  • KS3 Grammar Units – Richard Hudson
  • University of Toronto Academic Writing Handouts

Adverbs and Adverbials

  • DEFINITION Conjunctive Adverbs – Richard Nordquist at about.com
  • LIST of Conjunctive adverbs (furthermore, thus, therefore, in particular…) – Sierra College
  • Sentence adverb
  • The Adverb at chompchomp
  • The Adverb Clause at chompchomp

Blogroll

  • Breezes in Wonderland – Maria Tatar
  • Language Log

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

  • Revising for Cohesion – OWL at Purdue

College & university courses & writing centers

  • CCC – Capitol Community College Guide to Grammar & Writing
  • Institute of Rhetoric and Writing at Dartmouth College – Materials

College & university handouts

  • Germanna Community College handouts
  • Handouts from Tidewater Community College
  • Index to the CCC Guide to Grammar & Writing and Principles of Composition
  • University of Toronto Academic Writing Handouts

Commas

  • The (Carnivorous Commas) Page

Conjunctions

  • Coordinating Conjunctions at chompchomp
  • FANBOYS – Grammar Ramblings
  • 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

  • DEFINITION Conjunctive Adverbs – Richard Nordquist at about.com
  • LIST of Conjunctive adverbs (furthermore, thus, therefore, in particular…) – Sierra College

Constituent tests

  • Constituent Tests at Mug Mug Mug

Definitions

  • Dependent marker word
  • English glossary – traditional grammar
  • Glossary of Linguistic Terms at LinguaLinks
  • Glossary: The Internet Grammar of English (linguistic terminology)
  • Sentence adverb
  • Sentence Examples at YourDictionary
  • The Online Dictionary of Language Terminology
  • Verbs

English as a Second Language

  • * Oxford Practice Grammar – Self-test & Extensive exercises
  • 2 1/2-minute lecture & self-quiz at Chalk 'n Talk
  • Activities for ESL/EFL Students
  • AL 8640 – Pat Byrd – Applied Linguistics & ESL/EFL
  • Kenneth Beare's ESL pages at about.com
  • University of Victoria Study Zone
  • Verb Tense Tutorial w/timelines

English papers

  • Getting an A on an English Paper – Jack Lynch
  • W.W. Norton's LitWeb – writing about literature

Essays and books

  • Improving Writing & Grammar w/Text Reconstruction by Myra Linden
  • The English Language: From Sound to Sense by Delahunty & Garvey
  • The War Against Grammar by David Mulroy

Fables

  • Aesop's Fables at U. Mass
  • Androcles and the Lion
  • What is a fable?
  • Who is Aesop?

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

  • Visiting relatives can be boring.

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

  • AL 8640 – Pat Byrd – Applied Linguistics & ESL/EFL
  • Glossary of Linguistic Terms at LinguaLinks
  • Internet Grammar of English – University College London
  • KS3 Grammar Units – Richard Hudson
  • Lecture – Relative Clauses – Pat Byrd
  • Linguistic Humor
  • Linguistic Society of America – pamphlets

Nouns & noun phrases

  • Noun phrase – definition & explanation – Internet Grammar of English
  • Noun phrase – definition by chompchomp

Online quizzes, exercises, & practice

  • An Introduction to English Grammar 3rd Edition by Sidney Greenbaum & Gerald Nelson
  • 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

  • College Writing Skills by John Langan

Prepositions and prepositional phrases

  • LIST of Common prepositions – Sierra College

Pronouns

  • LIST of Subordinators and relative pronouns – Sierra College

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
  • What is the subject?
  • What is the verb?

Relative clauses

  • How relative clauses work – E360K English Grammar – U. Texas
  • Online quiz with answers – restrictive vs. nonrestrictive relative clauses
  • Relative clause index page – E360K
  • Relative clauses as sentence modifier

Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses

  • Online quiz with answers – restrictive vs. nonrestrictive relative clauses
  • Relative clause index page – E360K
  • Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses – University of Texas – E360K
  • Restrictive vs. Non-restrictive Elements (includes quiz with answers)

Sentence combining

  • Sentence Combining – Succinct and Simple Advice from Yarber & Yarber
  • The Need to Combine Sentences – Sentence Combining Skills
  • What Is Sentence Combining and How Does It Work?

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

  • Absolutes – Richard Nordquist
  • Elements of Sentence Construction – Towson

Thesis statement

  • What is a thesis statement? Indiana U

Verbs and verb phrases

  • Verb phrase – the 2 definitions – SIL
  • Verbs

Videos

  • John McWhorter on "Big Dude" languages

Vocabulary

  • Sentence Examples at Your Dictionary

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

  • 2 1/2-minute lecture & self-quiz at Chalk 'n Talk
  • Choppy Sentences – U of Minnesota – pdf file

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Online exercises

Good online punctuation quiz from John Langan

Exercise A: Other Punctuation – Colon, Semi-colon, Dash, Parenthesis, and Hyphen

Each item scored as you answer

April 29, 2014Catherine Leave a comment

Online quiz: prepositional phrases

With answers — at Big Dog’s Grammar

April 2, 2012Catherine Modifiers & modification Leave a comment

Terrific online quiz: restrictive vs nonrestrictive clauses

With answers!

February 24, 2012Catherine Leave a comment
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