Grammar Girl

Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a Grammar Girl, has very quick and easy tips and tricks that can help students navigate grammar conventions. (Most of her pages also contain audio; the timestamps for each tip is listened.) We've pulled out a few below:

• Sentence Diagramming
• Subject-Verb Agreement (starts at 2:13)
• Subjunctive Verbs (Was versus Were) (starts at 4:25)
• What is a Comma Splice? (starts at 6:40)
• Commas with Transition Words
• When to Use—and Not Use—an Em-Dash (starts at 6:31)
• What Is a Subordinate Clause? (starts at 1:43)
• Weird Conditionals: If-Clauses That Are Always True (starts at 5:02)
• Order of Adjectives (starts at 1:04)
• Who versus Whom (starts at 1:08)
• Which versus That (starts at 3:40)
• Affect versus Effect (starts at 5:25)
• I.e. versus E.g. (starts at 6:28)

UNC Chapel Hill

The Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill has put together a website full of useful resources, including writing the paper, sentence level concerns, and help with specific writing assignments or context. We pulled a few handy aid below:

• Passive Voice
• Fragments and Run-ons
• Semi-Colons, Colons, Dashes
• Word Choice
• Articles

Other Grammar Resources

• Document on Commas: Ten (Comma)ndments (PDF, 144K)
• Related Words is a webpage that helps find synonyms or other related words
• Documents on That versus Which from GrammarBook.com
• Free Rice: a website that tests your vocabulary knowledge. For every correct answer, they donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. (Please, disable your adblock when using since they use the ads on the site to generate the money to buy the rice.)
• Tip of My Tongue: a website to help identify a forgotten word.

Online Grammar Exercises

• OWL at Purdue Online Writing Exercises