GRAMMAR
English Grammar Links for ESL Students
Conversa Language Grammar Video Series
http://www.conversa1.com/grammarseries.htm
English Grammar Links for ESL Students
http://www.englishpage.com/index.html
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn
http://a4esl.org/
A fun study site for students
http://www.manythings.org/
Pre-intermediate to high-intermediate level English
http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm
Karin's ESL Partyland - "The Cool Way to Learn English"
http://www.eslpartyland.com/
University of Iowa's Phonetics: The Sounds of American English
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
Ultra Lingua's Online Grammar Explanations
http://www.ultralingua.net/grammars/english/index.htm
OWL Purdue's ESL Resources for Students
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html#purdue
The Internet Grammar of English
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/
Ask Miss Grammar
http://www.protrainco.com/info/grammar.htm
BBC's Skillwise Grammar, Spelling, Reading, Writing, Listening and Vocabulary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
Chalk N' Talk Lectures on grammatical structures using QuickTime video
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/chalkntalk/
Colin Mahoney's Present Perfect Page
A lesson on using the present perfect
http://web.archive.org/web/20011024222309/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2527/presentperfect.html
Daily Grammar
See the past lessons or sign up for a daily e-mail grammar lesson. For native-English-speaking high school students
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml
David Appleyard's World of English - Grammar Glossary
Grammar Glossary, Grammar for Japan, Article Usage, Tense Usage, Irregular Verbs
http://www.davidappleyard.com/english/grammar.htm
English Conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions, Correlative Conjunctions, and Subordinating Conjunctions
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/bryson.htm
English Language Centre Study Zone - Grammar Materials
Parts of Speech, Regular Plural of Nouns, Count/Non-count nouns, …
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm
english-online.org.uk's Free Language Lessons and EFL Exam Practice
Beginners course, Elementary Course, Intermediate course, Advanced course
http://www.english-online.org.uk/course.htm
Grammar Explanations
http://englishlinks.web1000.com/grammar.htm
ESLgold.com - Explanations, Examples, Exercises
Adjectives, adverbs, basic modals, count/non-count nouns, intensifiers, …
http://www.eslgold.com
eslzone1.tripod.com - Get Your Tenses Right
Web links to exercises on the web to help you study tenses
http://eslzone1.tripod.com/eslzone1-tenses/
Grammar Online
Adjective Clauses, The Passive Voice, Verb Particles
http://online.ohlone.cc.ca.us/~mlieu/
Grammar Quizzes (Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students)
Answer the question and see the answer right away
http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html
Grammar Safari
For advanced students. A way to use search engines to help you study grammar
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
Grammar Slammar
Designed for native speakers. Style and Usage, Capitalizing, Abbreviations, …
http://englishplus.com/grammar/
Grammar Workout
For Native Speakers: Noun-Verb Agreement, Noun-Pronoun Agreement, etc.
http://www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/WritersComplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/8c84a2140b7e0331852569f5005a2ea6?OpenDocument
Guide to Grammar and Style
Designed for native English speakers. It may be useful to advanced students.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/contents.html
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Grammar Rules and Explanations and Computer-Graded Quizzes.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
GWYNI- Grammar When You Need It
Grammar reference for ESL students. Includes some practice materials
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7583/index.html
Irregular Noun List
ox-oxen, man-men, etc
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/pluralsl.htm
John Fleming's ESL Grammar Help
The Sentence, Tenses, Auxiliary Verbs, Modal Auxiliaries, Verbs, …
http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/flemingjohn/stories/storyReader$14
John Wong's Basic Grammar
Explanations. Phrase, and clause; simple, compound, and complex sentences
http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~eljohn/writing/grammar1.htm
Lauri's ESL Website - Grammar
Various Grammar Activities for ESL students
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/grammar/grammar.html
Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers
ESL, Writing, TWE sample essays, Linguistics, Teacher Resources, TOEFL
http://buckhoff.topcities.com/
Modals Used in the Present and the Future
Charts and sentence examples.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/Modals.htm
Nick Miller's EFL/ESL Resource Material
Materials for the study of EFL/ESL and TOEIC
http://cleanfun.cz/efl/efltop.htm
Order of Adjectives
Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.htm
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/adjective_order.html
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
It's for native English speakers, but ESL students may also find it useful
http://www.grammarbook.com/
Using 'a', 'an', 'some', and 'the' Before Nouns
a brief explanation and a quiz on articles
http://bio-text.com/ESL.html
UsingEnglish.com English Conditionals
Discover how they are used to talk about possible or imaginary situations
http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/english-conditionals.html
UsingEnglish.com English Irregular Verb List
A comprehensive list of English irregular verbs
http://www.usingenglish.com/irregular-verb-list.html
ONLINE DICTIONARIES
Ultra Lingua's Web Dictionary
http://www.ultralingua.net/
The Wordsmyth English Language Dictionary-Thesaurus
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
All Words Dot Com
Search words, hear pronunciation, see English meaning and translations
http://www.allwords.com
Australian English Dictionary from A to Zed
http://www.travel-library.com/pacific/australia/stybr-language.html
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Searchable index or browse pages of the over 470 authors of quotes
http://www.bartleby.com/bartlett/
Cliché Finder
Even rarer ones like 'Enough money to burn a wet dog.'
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
Carnegie Mellon University's Pronouncing Dictionary
Over 125,000 words. / North American English
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
DICT's Development Group's Dictionary
A free web-based dictionary with no advertising
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict
Dictionary of English Slang and Colloquialisms Used in the U.K.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
Dictionary of English Usage from the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
For native English speakers. Browse or search 1,600 entries. It's free to use
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/english/
Differences Between Canadian, American, and British Spelling
centre=centre=center; cheque=cheque=check; etc.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm
Differences Between Canadian, American, and British Vocabulary
adverts = commercial break = commercial break; edgeways=edgewise=edgewise; etc.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/britishcanadianamericanvocab.html
Enchanted Learning's Online Picture Dictionary
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Aisfor.shtml
Etymology of First Names
Find out the original meanings of people's names
http://www.behindthename.com
Event Information of Today
Information for today and what events happened on this date in the past
http://www.copi.org/craig/events/today.html
Hakan's Dictionary of Slang and Idiom Phrases
8000-phrases up-to-date idioms and slang-dictionary
http://www.geocities.com/informalenglish/dictindex.html
Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English
See the 'Word of the Day' or search for a word
http://nhd.heinle.com/home.aspx
Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
It's free. You can search or browse. It's not designed for ESL
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/index_a.html
Maran.com's 3D Dictionary
A glossary with illustrations. Words related to computers and the Internet
http://www.maran.com/dictionary/
Merriam-Webster's Online- The Language Centre
Although it's a commercial site, there are many free and useful things available
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
One-Look Dictionaries
You can input the word once and then search many dictionaries for the word
http://www.onelook.com/
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Free access. This site requires downloading images
http://www.oup.com/elt/oald/
RhymeZone- Rhyming Dictionary
Input a word and get a list of words that rhyme
http://www.rhymezone.com
The Rap Dictionary
Information on hip-hop slang or artists
http://www.rapdict.org/Category:Terms
UsingEnglish.com's Word Checker
Check a word's grammar and usage
http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/wordcheck/index.php
UsingEnglish.com's Glossary of English Grammar Terms
Words such as: accent, acronym, acrostic, active, adjunct, affix, …
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html
English-English dictionary
www.dictionary.com
Online Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
www.yourdictionary.com
Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary
http://www.usyd.edu.au/cet/selfaccess/EAPvocab.htm
Academic Vocabulary
