Useful Links
- Guide to Grammar and Style
- Punctuation Guide (with examples and exercises)
- Guide to Writing in the Future Tense
Purdue’s ESL Handouts, Guides and Exercises
- Home Page
- A vs. An
- Adjective or Adverb? (bad, badly - good, well - near, nearly - etc.)
- Articles ( a, an, the)
- Capitalization
- Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns (some, any - much, many - enough - plenty of - etc.)
- Count and NonCount Nouns 1
- Count and NonCount Nouns 2
- Common phrases/idioms (figure out - do away with - pull through - etc.)
- Prepositions of Direction (to, on, onto, in, into)
- Prepositions of Location (at, in, on)
- Prepositions of Spatial Relationship (above, ahead of, in front of, nearby, within, etc.)
- Prepositions of Time, Place, and to Introduce Objects (since, for, by, from, etc.)
- Sentence Fragments
- Spelling: (accept, except - affect, effect)
- Spelling: words that sound alike
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Verbs Tenses
- Irregular Verbs
- Sequence of Tenses
- Verb Tense Consistency
- Writing for an American Academic Audience
- Writing for a North American Business Audience
- Exercises for most of the above:
How to write citations and bibliographies in:
- Guidelines for Gender-Fair Use of Language (National Council of Teachers of English)
Removing Bias in Language (American Psychological Association)
- Quoting and Paraphrasing Guide (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Documentation Styles
- Style Guides (Internet/Electronic Resources) (MUN Library)
- Style Guides (Print Publications) (MUN Library)
- Research and Documenting Sources (Purdue University)
