“I need help with grammar!” (Part 3)

I stumbled across a site featured on the WordPress homepage, which poked fun at “suspicious” quotation marks. One click led to another, and I discovered this useful blog:

Grammar Girl: Quick and dirty tips for better writing

The site includes:

• General tips
• Grammar tips (what’s the difference between “like” and “such as”?)
• Punctuation help (when do you use single, and when do you use double quotation marks?)
• Advice on word choice (do you say “between”, “compared to” or “compared with”?)
• Style tips

 

“I need help with grammar!” (Part 2)

Not sure how to use a semicolon? Want some straightforward definitions of nouns and verbs? Need some no-nonsense advice on how to avoid sexist and/or potentionally offensive language? Spent your life not knowing where to put that possessive apostrophe?

Now you can put all that behind you. Just [ask Wordwatch], and you’ll get an answer you can understand. Or your money back. Not that you have to give me any. Whatever – ask away!

- Wordwatch

“I need help with grammar!”

If this sounds like you, here are a few sites that you might find helpful:

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Purdue University) (see “Grammar and Mechanics” in the sidebar)

Modern English Grammar (College of DuPage)

Guide to Grammar and Writing

 A Ten Minute Tour of Complex Sentences (University of Chicago Writing Program)

 

(Thanks to Helen for the links)