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Reviewing Grammatical Terms And Concepts

UIUC Writers' Program -- Grammar Handbook
Follow the Grammar Handbook link in the frame to the left. This no-frills handbook from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, explains and illustrates parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.
  UIUC Writers' Program -- Grammar Handbook

Guide to Grammar and Style
Jack Lynch brings good sense and good humor to his Web pages, as well as vast expertise. This is an A-Z listing of grammatical terms and individual words and phrases ("irregardless," "try and," and many more) which may cause trouble. To get a sense of what's here, browse the contents page.
  Guide to Grammar and Style

Guide to Grammar and Writing
An excellent site maintained by Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College in Hartford. A quick look at the index will make the scope of this site clear. There are exhaustive explanations of grammatical concepts, in addition to abundant help with writing and research. There are dozens of quizzes to check the user's comprehension of grammar and usage, and there's a search engine.
  Guide to Grammar and Writing

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
Numerous college and university writing labs maintain online facilities as well as physical ones. Few provide the coverage of grammar and writing topics that Purdue's OWL has provided since 1993. The handouts (available also in printer-friendly versions) cover writing strategies and genres, research steps, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, parts of speech, and more. There are interactive exercises as well as rules and examples.
  Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

The Basic Elements of English
Sponsored by the English Department at the University of Calgary, this site offers tutorials on parts of speech, sentence elements, punctuation, and word use. Each brief tutorial ends with a quiz. There is also a marking guide.
  The Basic Elements of English


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