English Language Improvement Links
GRAMMAR
English Grammar Links for ESL Students
- Free daily English grammar lessons and exercises
- English Grammar Links for ESL Students
- Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn
- A fun study site for students
- Karin's ESL Partyland - "The Cool Way to Learn English"
- University of Iowa's Phonetics: The Sounds of American English
- OWL Purdue's ESL Resources for Students
- The Internet Grammar of English
- Ask Miss Grammar
- BBC's Skillwise Grammar, Spelling, Reading, Writing, Listening and Vocabulary
- Colin Mahoney's Present Perfect Page
Daily Grammar
- See the past lessons or sign up for a daily e-mail grammar lesson. For native-English-speaking high school students
- David Appleyard's World of English - Grammar Glossary Grammar Glossary, Grammar for Japan, Article Usage, Tense Usage, Irregular Verbs
English Conjunctions
- English Language Centre Study Zone - Grammar Materials
Parts of Speech, Regular Plural of Nouns, Count/Non-count nouns, … - english-online.org.uk's Free Language Lessons and EFL Exam Practice
Beginners course, Elementary Course, Intermediate course, Advanced course - ESLgold.com - Explanations, Examples, Exercises
Adjectives, adverbs, basic modals, count/non-count nouns, intensifiers, …
Grammar Online
- Grammar Quizzes (Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students)
Answer the question and see the answer right away - Grammar Slammer
Designed for native speakers. Style and Usage, Capitalizing, Abbreviations, …
Grammar Workout
- For Native Speakers: Noun-Verb Agreement, Noun-Pronoun Agreement, etc.
- Guide to Grammar and Style
Designed for native English speakers. It may be useful to advanced students. - Guide to Grammar and Writing
Grammar Rules and Explanations and Computer-Graded Quizzes. - Irregular Noun List ox-oxen, man-men, etc
- John Fleming's ESL Grammar Help
The Sentence, Tenses, Auxiliary Verbs, Modal Auxiliaries, Verbs, … - John Wong's Basic Grammar
Explanations. Phrase, and clause; simple, compound, and complex sentences - Lauri's ESL Website - Grammar
Various Grammar Activities for ESL students - Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers
ESL, Writing, TWE sample essays, Linguistics, Teacher Resources, TOEFL - Modals Used in the Present and the Future
Charts and sentence examples. - Nick Miller's EFL/ESL Resource Material
Materials for the study of EFL/ESL and TOEIC
Order of Adjectives
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
It's for native English speakers, but ESL students may also find it useful - Using 'a', 'an', 'some', and 'the' Before Nouns
a brief explanation and a quiz on articles - UsingEnglish.com English Conditionals
Discover how they are used to talk about possible or imaginary situations - UsingEnglish.com English Irregular Verb List
A comprehensive list of English irregular verbs
Online Dictionaries
- Ultra Lingua's Web Dictionary
- The Wordsmyth English Language Dictionary-Thesaurus
- All Words Dot Com
Search words, hear pronunciation, see English meaning and translations - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Searchable index or browse pages of the over 470 authors of quotes - Cliché Finder
Even rarer ones like 'Enough money to burn a wet dog.' - Carnegie Mellon University's Pronouncing Dictionary
Over 125,000 words. / North American English - DICT's Development Group's Dictionary
A free web-based dictionary with no advertising - Dictionary of English Slang and Colloquialisms Used in the U.K.
- Dictionary of English Usage from the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
For native English speakers. Browse or search 1,600 entries. It's free to use - Differences Between Canadian, American, and British Spelling
centre=centre=center; cheque=cheque=check; etc. - Differences Between Canadian, American, and British Vocabulary
adverts = commercial break = commercial break; edgeways=edgewise=edgewise; etc. - Enchanted Learning's Online Picture Dictionary
- Etymology of First Names
Find out the original meanings of people's names - Event Information of Today
Information for today and what events happened on this date in the past - Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English
See the 'Word of the Day' or search for a word - Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
It's free. You can search or browse. It's not designed for ESL - Maran.com's 3D Dictionary
A glossary with illustrations. Words related to computers and the Internet - Merriam-Webster's Online- The Language Centre
Although it's a commercial site, there are many free and useful things available - One-Look Dictionaries
You can input the word once and then search many dictionaries for the word - Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Free access. This site requires downloading images - RhymeZone- Rhyming Dictionary
Input a word and get a list of words that rhyme - The Rap Dictionary
Information on hip-hop slang or artists - UsingEnglish.com's Word Checker
Check a word's grammar and usage - UsingEnglish.com's Glossary of English Grammar Terms
Words such as: accent, acronym, acrostic, active, adjunct, affix, … - English-English dictionary
- Online Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
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