Reference [grammar, dictionaries, math, almanacs, texts]

Grammar (grammar, stylebooks, writing tips)

GRAMMAR

• Grammar Clues: The Correct Choices to Fix-Up Writing
• Grammar Matters (NIU) [interactive exercises]
   parentheticals  that/which  who/whom  compound modifiers
   it's/its  placement  series  conjunctions  colons  agreement

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• Guide to Grammar and Writing (Capital CC) [instructions, quizzes]

  Exercises [2-3 hours] Just these in this order:
  31. Subject-Verb Agreement  
  32. Subject-Verb Agreement II   [ agreement]
  107. Which, That and Who   [ that/which  who/whom]

  83. Comma Usage [This exercise doesn't eat serial commas.]
  85. Punctuation [This exercise uses semi-colons to repair comma splices. Journalists
  often separate related sentences into two sentences with a period and capital letter.]

  94. Compound Nouns [Move to the next response with "tab."]   [ compound modifiers]
  [Journalism deviates from this exercise's answers for these two items:
  vice president and a coal-black sky. "Rat race" is a noun phrase.]

  78. Modifier Placement   [ placement   First click on the quiz number for details.]

  Now try other quizzes, such as
  93. Basic Mechanics and
  118. Parallelism III   [ series   First click on the quiz number for details.]

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• Grammar and Writing Guide (Online Graduate Programs)
• Writer's Workshop (Ball State University) [quizzes, links]
• "Test of the Emergency Grammar System" [a 10-question quiz]
• The Tongue Untied (University of Oregon) [grammar review]
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation [exercises]
• "Rules Grammar Change" (satire from The Onion)
• The Grammar Page [punctuation and sentence structure]
• Grammar quizzes for ESL students
• WWW Sources on Grammar (ATEG) [several sites]
• The Dr. Grammar Frequently Asked Questions page
• Humorous Grammar Rules

  STYLEBOOKS

• Journalism Stylebook Matters (NIU) [exercise]
  checklist:  up/down  long/short  spell out/digitize
   "quote marks."  commas?  "Titles"  apostrophes?
• Interactive Usage Test (Northwestern)
• The Grammar Page [stylebook quizzes and answer keys]
• National Public Radio Styleguide [pronunciation, usage, grammar]
• Guide to Grammar and Style [alphabetized style manual]
• Common Errors in English [alphabetized list]

  WRITING TIPS

• How to make footnotes for Internet material
• Writing, Research, and Editing Resources
• Copyright Clearance Center (copyright law)
• To Journalism Starting Points (NewsPlace: Resources)

Dictionaries

• WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• OneLook (specialized dictionaries)
• Merriam-Webster Online (dictionary, thesaurus)
• Research-It! (dictionaries, thesauri, language translators)
• Foreign language dictionaries at NewsPlace: Travel
• Biographical Dictionary

Math

• Convert Auto "convert just about anything automatically"

Almanacs

• Thisday
• Historic Events and Birthdays
• Today in Canadian History
• Literary Calendar
• The Daily Almanacs

Classic texts

• Shakespeare (phrase searches)
• Bartleby's (index to quotations from many sources)
• The Bible Gateway (phrase searches)
• The Glorious Quran (phrase browser)

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