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Introduction

New Section!

As English is very important, this will be comprehensive, maybe even covering the likes of oxymorons and third person indicative and such.

Links

It has been a long time since I truly sat up and said "Blimey (or words to that effect), that's impressive!" about a website and really, REALLY meant it, but here's one:

Capital Community College's Guide to Grammar and Writing and Principles of Composition.

I was looking for something to teach my kids the proper use of apostrophes....

What I found is an almost, in not, a definitive guide to good grammar. The list is exhaustive and includes, to name but a few: Abstract nouns, adverbs, apostrophes, gerunds vs infinitives, subjunctives and transitive verbs.

Their interactive online quizzes are also essential viewing in my books. Can't recommend this educational site enough!

• Oracle's database expert Lexicon
  
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have some great English language and writing resources, articles etc.
  
  
• Common Problems of English Grammar & Punctuation
  
  
• Ancient Scripts
  Contrary to the name, it's not all about scripts or even fonts but languages and phonics and way more. I seriously recommend you take at least one look at this site.
  
  If you are an English lecturer or a student at Advanced level or above then this site is a godsend. Really, bookmark it now!
  
  

Glossary

Although I am doing my best for my own children I despair at the poor level of English in youths of today. This bit will be my contribution to improving English...


TO BE COMPLETED...

Verbs:

Doing words:

Adverbs

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Nouns:

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Pronouns:

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Adjectives

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Articles:

The definite article...

The indefinite article

Prepositions:

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Conjunctions:

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Tenses:

Present...

Present Subjunctive...

Future...

Past...