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Guide to Writing and Grammar (excellent pull down menus) for sentence part structures for adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns and a slew of others for either word and sentence level or paragraph level tips.

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/#


Bartleby.Com (English Usage, Style & Composition)
Select the link, 'American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage' for a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style.

Select the link, 'The Columbia Guide to Standard American English' for a most extensive handbook of the language ever published features over 6,500 descriptive and prescriptive entires with 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references.

Select the link to William Strunks 'The Elements of Style' - Believing that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student or writer.

A few other interesting links as well...

http://www.bartleby.com/usage/

The Forest of Rhetoric - silva rhetoricae - This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/


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