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Grammar and ESL
When the KnightOwl is unavailable, you'll find consultation and answers to all of your grammar related questions below.
Grammar Links to Wisdom and Exercises
- Teach Now: Lots of interactive grammar exercises
- Grammar Bytes: Some useful exercises, including quizzes about comma use
- Online Grammar Exercises: A collection of exercises for a variety of grammar issues
- Guide to Grammar and Writing: A useful site with explanations of grammar issues. From Capital Community College.
- Gary Olsen's Punctuation Made Simple: Demystifying punctuation.
- Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists: Grammar help specifically designed for writers in these fields
UWC Grammar Handouts
- Avoiding Sexist Language
- Bare Minimum Grammar
- Dashes and Parentheses
- Five Uncommonly Serious Mistakes
- Five Easy Comma Rules
- How to Choose Articles
- The Known-New Contract
- Improving Coherence with Known-New Contract
- Mastering Prepositions
- The Paramedic Method
- Passive Voice Q&A
- Punctuation Hierarchies and Sentence Patterns
- The Semi-Colon: Making Connections
- More handouts
ESL
- ESL Partyland: A site for conversation starters and exercises
- OWL at Purdue: Great ESL--and many other--online handouts
- Grammar Quizzes: Part of The Internet TESL Journal's Activities for ESL Students.
- English as a Second Language: A great site with hundreds of ESL links to speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities and exercises. Also includes ESL games, lesson plans, and jobs.