AP English Language Grammar Help
UIUC Writers' Program -- Grammar Handbook
Follow the Grammar Handbook link in the frame to the left. This no-frills handbook from the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, explains and illustrates parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of
usage.
UIUC Writers' Program -- Grammar Handbook : http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/
Assignment: Click on “Clauses”, provide an example for each law under the four separate clause categories, different from the
ones given.
Guide to Grammar and Style
Jack Lynch brings good sense and good humor to his Web pages, as well as vast expertise. This is an A-Z listing of grammatical
terms and individual words and phrases ("irregardless," "try and," and many more) which may cause trouble. To get a sense of
what's here, browse the contents page.
Guide to Grammar and Style : http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
Assignment: Read through the introduction. Then, click on “Contents” and select seven content categories. Read through each
one thoroughly and provide an example for each category.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
Numerous college and university writing labs maintain online facilities as well as physical ones. Few provide the coverage of
grammar and writing topics that Purdue's OWL has provided since 1993. The handouts (available also in printer-friendly
versions) cover writing strategies and genres, research steps, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, parts of speech, and
more. There are interactive exercises as well as rules and examples.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab : http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Assignment: Go to the website above and click on Non-Purdue Students. Click on “Logic in Argumentative Writing”
and read the section. Create five syllogisms and five enthymemes. Then, click on the section “Logical Fallacies”. Provide one
example for each fallacy listed, different from the example given.
Common Errors in English
This is Paul Brians's exhaustive and beautifully done site on usage errors. Nothing sharpens up a class like regular visits to these
pages, even though you run the risk of having your students catch you in a usage sin -- as happened to me when one of my
students, empowered by this Web site, heard me say "ATM machine."
Common Errors in English : http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Assignment: Select twenty common errors in English usage and explain why the correction given fixes the error, within the
context.
(information gathered from The College Board)