On-Line
English Grammar by Anthony Hughes (1995-2000) This link will
take you to the Table of Contents of a grammar reference from Edunet. From
this page, you can follow links to explanations and examples of specific
elements of grammar. This grammar has been put on-line by Anthony Hughes
and is available free of charge for anyone to use. http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm An electronic
reference text from Edu-Net, including notes on form and usage as well
as a Grammar Clinic with answers about English grammar (UK)
The
Internet Grammar of English by University College London. The Internet
Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily
for university undergraduates. However, the authors hope that it
will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. IGE
does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar. The Internet Grammar of
English will be accessible free of charge to users from UK educational
institutions (i.e. for those who log in from a domain ending in .ac.uk).
For a limited trial period only, IGE will also be accessible free of charge
to all other users. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm .
The Internet Grammar of English was written in 1996-98 and was funded
by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The Internet Grammar
was written and designed at the Survey of English Usage, a research unit
based in the English Department at University College London.
There are also some grammar exercises provided to can test your grammar
skills and get immediate feedback by trying the exercises at the end of
the tutorials.
HyperGrammar
Hyper Grammarby the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa.HyperGrammar
by the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa. http://aix1.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/
The
UVic Writer's Guide. Knowing The Basics of Grammar. "What follows is
intended to give a brief, rudimentary account of the way in which English
sentences work. It proceeds from this survey to a quick look at some characteristic
difficulties in writing English and the grammatical information necessary
to deal with these difficulties." http://www.clearcf.uvic.ca/writersguide/Pages/StartHere.html
CobuildDirect
Corpus Sampler. The CobuildDirect corpus is composed of 50 million
words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the
type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type
in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from
the corpus. The query syntax allows you to specify word combinations, wildcards,
part-of-speech tags, and so on. A fast and useful grammar reference displays
the word or phrase you look up as it is used in real-world context (Corpus)
and with a listing of frequently uses with the target word (Collocation);
an excellent tool for the study of both meaning and usage. For a similar
tool, try Web Concordancer (English) http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html
University
of Illinois Grammar Handbook This portion of the Writers'
Workshop Online Handbook was compiled and written by the students of English
302 (Descriptive English Grammar) in the Spring semester of 1995. The instructor
for this course was Professor Michael Pemberton. Each student in the course
was responsible for writing one entry in the handbook, and the name of
the student who authored each page can be found at the bottom of the respective
entry. The following is a list of all the students who contributed and
their topics. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/aboutgrammar.htm
A
Brief Grammatical Sketch of English byThomas E. Payne It is a
brief grammatical sketch of English. It is a sample of one kind of description
that can be produced using the general outline suggested in Describing
Morphosyntax: a guide for field linguists.
First, this sample sketch treats English as though it were a little-studied
language. It is meant to give the reader an idea of the depth, scope and
one mode of presentation that can be useful to linguists interested in
grammatical sketches of little-studied languages. Second, the glosses and
translations for examples are given in Spanish.