QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #4
Grammar headaches – and how to cure them
Are your participles dangling? Your
infinitives split? Students bugging you for explanations
about the difference between that and which? If the answer to your
question is not right on the shelf, or you’d like to get a second opinion,
check out the three very different resources below. And, as always, this is not
a comprehensive list. Perform your own search and you’re sure to come up with
an even broader variety of online resources to help with grammar questions.
http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/index.html
Offering more than just grammar help, a staff of dedicated linguists
provides detailed answers on a message board to an amazing variety of
language-related questions. You could spend all day just reading the inquiries
and responses.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
This site functions as a detailed and comprehensive online grammar text
book, with many useful explanations, examples, and exercises. This site would
serve well the student who is looking to develop a self-study program or to
supplement what is taught in class.
Not a website. Just the e-mail address for the Center
for English as a Second Language at the