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.

 

grammar@email.arizona.edu

 

Not a website. Just the e-mail address for the Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona, where a qualified instructor promises to respond to your questions.