Online Grammar Resources

There are many websites around that offer online tools and resources for English grammar. One example is YourDictionary.com. This site does not actually have its own tools but it suggests some sites that offer free online grammar checkers. These are AbiWord, Spellchecker.net, Grammar Slammer, and Language Tool. Information is also provided regarding the Grammar Check of Microsoft Word and the limitations of grammar checkers. It also suggests the websites of English Page, 1 Language, Grammar Monster, and Daily Grammar as places to enhance a person’s knowledge on English grammar.

The Grammar Monster site offers free grammar lessons and grammar tests. It also offers a list of common grammar errors and glossary of grammatical terms. Grammar tests focus on adjectives, adverbs, interjections, conjunctions, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, and verbs. The free grammar lessons delve on a variety of topics including brackets, commas, colons, hyphens, capital letters, comparatives, abbreviations, apostrophes, vocative case, interjections, prepositions, pronouns, verbs, conjunctions, adverbs, and adjectives.

The Daily Grammar website offers a compilation of lessons on parts of speech, parts of the sentence, and mechanics. Some of the specific topics include verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. Lessons on parts of the sentence include the compound and the complex, sentence variety, verbals, adjective clauses, compound sentences, adverb infinitives, prepositional phrases, indirect objects, subject-verb agreement, predicate nominative, capitalization, appositives, apostrophes, hyphens, colons, semicolons, quotation marks, commas, and periods.

Another helpful site is GrammarBook.com, which offer free information on English grammar and punctuation. It offers information on rules and provides examples and quizzes. Some of the topics are grammar rules, capitalization rules, punctuation rules, rules for writing numbers, and commonly confused words. It also offers videos on grammar and punctuation and interactive English quizzes.

Another important site on English grammar is the Purdue OWL Internet References website, which not only focuses on grammar but also on various kinds of writing. With regards to grammar it offers information regarding various topics, including the active and passive voice, appositives, commas, dangling modifies, adverbs and adjectives, articles, hyphens, independent and dependent clauses, irregular verbs, parallel structure, punctuation patterns, subject-verb agreement, transitions, and transitional devices.

Finally, another online grammar tool is the English Grammar Book of Englishpage.com, which provides English lessons and exercises. These are grouped into various categories including adjectives, adverbs, articles, comparatives and superlatives, conjunctions, gerunds and infinitives, irregular verbs, interjections, modal verbs, nouns, negative forms, phrasal verbs, pronouns, prepositions, and subject-verb agreement.