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Grammar Abusers Anonymous links students to grammar websites

Student writers are often told to visit grammar websites for information to deal with their grammar and punctuation problems. Often, however, the sheer volume of information they find overwhelms them before they find what they need.

This page gives at least three good online sources of English grammar help for the most common serious grammar and punctuation errors in students' writing. (These tend to be the most common grammar and punctuation errors in adults' writing as well.)

The grammar and punctuation errors are listed in descending order from those most likely to cause the writer to be misunderstood to those less likely to cause misunderstandings.

Square brackets contain information to help writers find the rules quickly. If relevant information is on only a section of the page, the subheading for the section is given.

In cases where understanding a rule hinges on knowing the meaning of one particular term, locations of definitions are listed and the defined term indicated in brackets.

There's no significance to the order in which the grammar websites are listed.

The links below takes you as directly as possible to information about a particular error on a particular grammar website.

Guidance for DIY grammar study

Mature high school and college students, as well as adult learners, can get guidance in using these grammar websites to master their habitual written grammar errors in my e-book Grammar Abusers Anonymous.

The book contains information I prepared to help my students continue to improve their grammar after our class together was ended.

Linda Aragoni says

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How do you handle teaching grammar for writing? What worked? What blew up in your face?

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Sentence errors

Sentence fragments

Fused (run-on/run-together) sentences

Comma splice

Verb problems

Lack of subject-verb agreement

Wrong/missing verb ending

Unnecessary shift in verb tense

Wrong verb tense or verb form

Pronoun problems

Vague pronoun reference

Faulty pronoun agreement

Word placement problems

Misplaced or dangling modifier

Common punctuation errors

Missing comma after introductory element

Missing comma in compound sentence

Missing comma(s) with nonessential element

Unneeded apostrophe in possessive pronouns

Unneeded apostrophe in the plural of an acronym

More pages on the grammar for writing thread

Return to the start of the grammar for writing thread from this page about grammar websites, or choose from the list below one of the other topics on the grammar for writing thread:

Teaching written grammar | Grammar for writing | 24 basic rules | Essential grammar studies | 8 top grammar issues | Big 4 grammar concepts | Sentence recognition | Fragment recognition | Persistent fragments | Run-together sentences | Sentence subject | Pronouns show subjects | Subjects & verbs | S-V agreement | Grammar-punctuation relationship | Teaching comma use | Grammar websites | Grammar check software | Homonyms |
Published 14-Mar-2010; updated 15-Jun-2010
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