English Grammar Resources on the Internet

Writing term papers, essays or research papers used to mean you had to spend time at the library. Once there, you would lay claim to an entire table so you could lay out encyclopedias, dictionaries, English books to help with punctuation and sentence structure. Now, term papers and writing assignments are as easy as turning on your computer. With a good word processor and a connection to the Internet, an A on your homework or a job promotion for your presentation is only a keystroke away.
The Internet can be a wonderful source of information for anyone who is looking for help with English or in writing letters, stories or essays. Of course, the best idea is to go straight to a search engine such as Infoseek, Yahoo or Alta Vista for help. A large number of the sites related to grammar are linked to each other. Everything is available on the Internet; grammar rules and examples of each; colleges that contain lessons and tests; explanations of punctuation rules and sites that merely 'talk' about the English language and the rules governing it. There are even sites that have all of the above. I have attempted to find a large sampling of the previously mentioned web sites that deal with grammar, punctuation, and writing.
WORDS ON THE WEB
The web sites that follow will deal in large part with words - sentence structure, phrases and clauses, etc.
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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Website offers 13 general rules of grammar plus examples followed by an exercise and test to check knowledge. It also covers Subject & verb agreement, use of Who & Whom, Who vs Which vs That, effective writing, misplaced and dangling modifiers. [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Guide to Grammar and Style
Links to articles and essays on subjects as varied as: "When to Use Semi-colons," "What is a Dangling Participle?"
Also includes additional suggested reading on English Usage and on-line sources to English and writing resources.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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This site offers grammar and writing help. It includes help with style, parts of speech, phrases & clauses, and sentences. It also offers a dictionary, thesaurus, vocabulary help, help with public speaking and links to authors, poets, and playwrights.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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This site offers interactive help from a former teacher in the "English as a Second Language" program in Pittsburgh, Pa.
This site has a grammar hotline, a newsletter and a help column.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Online English Grammar
Definitions of parts of speech. The list is quite extensive, but the definitions are very short and utilitarian. Examples are included following the definitions. This site also has a 'eForum' that looks very much like the COD eForum.
By clicking on "Subject Index" you arrive at an alphabetic listing of all grammar subjects covered at this site.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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This site is a potpourri of all things relating to English grammar. There are 10 General headings with many, many related links under each. The headings and related links are: Etymology, Grammar & Usage (with link to COD Grammar 126), linguistic links, newsgroups, puns, reference (dictionaries and thesauri), word games, word & letter play and word watching and vocabulary development.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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This site contains an essay called "Why Good Grammar?" at the bottom of the essay is a link to Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Interactive site starting with how to use parts of speech correctly. This is followed by a long list of grammar and word games, puzzles and short quizzes.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
Topics start at the sentence level, progress to the paragraph level and culminate in the essay level where "Principles of Composition." are discussed. The site also includes examples of business letters, memos, resumes and research papers. It offers a help column, interactive quizzes, a list of online resources, quotes from famous writers about writing and grammar goofs and misspellings from college and high school essays. Ends with Websters dictionary and thesauris.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Only one page to this web site. It is dedicated to the difference between "it's" and "its". Also included is a link to "Grammar and Style" web site.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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This is also a relatively small site - It covers "Anatomy of English" (parts of speech) and "Style Elements" (capitalization, punctuation and spelling) [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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The Curmudgeons Style Book
Written as a supplement to the AP stylebook, this site helps with word choice, capitalization, compounds and punctuation.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Writers Workshop
This site offers assistance with the parts of speech, phrases and clauses, usage problems and sentence elements. It also has links to a writer's workshop and other sites that offer help with writing everything from research papers to resumes. [/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
HELP WITH WRITING
Resources to Make You the Next Wm. Shakespeare
That last web address for the University of Illinois makes a nice segue into a listing of web sites devoted to the business of writing. Pick up your pen, and come with me ----
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Online Version of "Elements of Style" by Wm. Strunk
Designed to aid the student who is combining Composition with literature course. Covers the Elementary Rules of Usage, Principals of Composition, Words and Expressions Commonly Misused [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Grammar Grabbers
Professional Tips for Amateur Writers
A humorous look at grammar choices that will make your writing clearer and more interesting. Offers help with misused words and phrases, suggestions for simplifying word choices, a brief section of grammar assistance, web page design tips and a section on being "gender neutral." [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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University of Toronto English Library
This site, like so many others, covers more than one category. It includes links to History of English, English Composition and writers' resources.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This site is specifically for learning to write. There are pages explaining how to decide what to write, how to organize, revise & edit what you write. Also has help writing informal, exploratory & argumentative essays. [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Common Errors in English
Interesting web site that lists the most common errors in English and explains why they are errors. For Instance: affect/effect, capital/capitol, compare & contrast, for all intensive purposes, different than. There are also supplementary pages of usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are perfectly okay. Site lists other resources (with a link to Dan Kies' Modern English Grammar).[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
PUNCTUATION ON THE WEB
Help Making Your Sentences Readable
The following web sites are related to punctuation. Some of the sites will have a smattering of grammar and writing assistance.
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from: The Utah Valley State College and The Association of Web Based Learning.
This site appears to be an English class online. There are 10 basic rules of punctuation with links to examples and participation questions. When answered and submitted, the computer will assess your understanding of the rule.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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There are no cute graphics or interesting looking pages with this site. It is just one long page of punctuation rules, explanations and examples. The few links that are included cover "coordinating conjunction", "base clauses," "dependent clause," "sentence," "main & independent clauses," and "basic sentence concepts."[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Purdue University has an online writing lab that covers grammar and punctuation. It can be linked to the writing lab which includes instructional handouts and writing resources [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Punctuation information from "The writing Group." The site presents an overview of punctuation and pages of explanations and examples of 5 major means of punctuation:

1. the apostrophe
2. the colon
3. the dash
4. the comma
5. the semicolon

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A Functional Concept of Punctuation
This site seems to be part of a larger site that is a 'Handbook for Technical Writers and /Editors' called Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalization. This is Chapter 3 and covers the apostrophe, colon, comma, Em dash, En dash, hyphen, italics, parentheses, ellipsis, period, question marks, quotation marks, semicolon and slash [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Lifelong Universe:Punctuation Made Plain (high school & up)
As the title shows, this site deals mostly with punctuation. It explains and demonstrates sentences, intonation, questions, & exclamations. The site includes a glossary of terms that covers everything from adverbial clauses to verbs. The definitions include examples and occasionally a link to more information. Each page of explanations has an unusual graphic.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Purdue University Online Writing Lab
This site offers links to pages that explain the usage of commas, apostrophe, quotation mark, hyphen, semicolon, dash, and parenthesis. You will also find help with run-on sentences, comma splices and fused sentences. there is also a page of definitions of such terms as: independent and dependent marker, independent & dependent clauses, coordinating conjunction, and some common errors to avoid[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT?
Dictionaries on the Web
Necessary resources for anyone writing anything, including letters, are dictionaries and thesauri. If you have a good word processor, chances are there is also a spell checker. However, maybe you're using paper and pencil or an old-fashioned typewriter.
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Merriam Webster Online - The Language Center
Online dictionary with search function. Also online thesauris with search function. Plus - A Brief Look at the History of English[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Languages and Linguistics page from E-Server
Offers links to dictionaries in several languages, including English-German, French, Russian, Spanish. Also links for learning foreign languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Russian. Links concerned with Linguistics, oxymorons and acronyms. [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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An Index of Online Dictionaries (multi-lingual and specialized English)
A web of online grammars, linguistic fun, thesauri and other vocabulary aids.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Project Perseus - An Evolving Digital Library
Contains book texts, English word and phrase search and an English-Greek search tool.[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
BOOKS ONLINE
Finally, the result: English grammar & punctuation & good writing & dictionaries & thesauri=Books!
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Links to each chapter of great American books including:
"Little Women," "Winesburg, Ohio," and "The Red Badge of Courage"[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]
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Project Gutenberg
Site dedicated to putting complete text of books "online"[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]
This completes my list of Internet resources for anyone interested in English grammar. There are more sites that could be included, but since most of the sites are linked to each other it would be repetitious.
We've taken the search for grammar and writing assistance to the Internet and found enough resources to write essays, research papers or a novel. In fact, there are also resources for writing fiction (and getting published once you've written it) on the web.

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This site provides a variety of ESL resources and links. There's nothing intrinsically new here, but the site is very well maintained, and most of the newest resources on the web are documented. There's also a penpal service and a few help manuals.
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This site provides links to many other free Internet services and is designed for both learners and teachers. It also connects the user with the home pages of other academic institutions dealing with ESL.
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This site has a broad spectrum of ESL resources.

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A well-maintained commercial site providing a regularly updated ESL journal, a jobs forum, and an ESL schools directory.
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This is an electronic ESL journal, with access to back issues.
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This site provides online help (including a daily Q & A) for both ESL students and teachers, a jobs forum, lunacy, graffiti, and so on.

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This comprehensive site includes activities, discussion groups, job opportunity listings, student projects, and more.

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A well-maintained site, periodically updated by Rong Chang Li. You must have a soundcard and some kind of sound engine on your machine to get the best use out of this page. The following sections are featured on this site:
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Integration of Reading, Listening and Speaking Skills
A number of articles and games that also use the sound player. The most useful portion is probably the hypercard exercise on plurals, but you must have hypercard installed on your machine. A phrase book of sorts gives access to common sentences in English.
Listening and Speaking
A listening page, where you can download recordings and texts, and read along with what you hear. A scenario with three actors ("Going to the Dentist's Office") is amusing and the .html based text means that you can listen to any sentence in the short exchange as many times as you like.
English
A real phrase book, brightly illustrated with national flags, provides assistance for native speakers of German and French. Every word can be downloaded as a soundfile to your soundplayer, simply by clicking on it. The phrase book is quite large, and provides written translations of each word/phrase into German and French.
Talk Radio
This provides the user with a large selection of American NPR radio articles. They're each a minute or two long and not really for the rank ESL beginner. Texts don't seem to be provided.
Video Clips
This is actually for high school students of technology and science, but the video clips provide speeches etc. The files take some time to download, and remember you will have to have a video player installed on your machine.

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