How to Use this List of Language Links
This curated list of grammar links is intended to be a common reference point for Writing Centre tutors and tutees, and for any teachers who need to point their students toward resources that will help them understand their written English grammar problems. The links are organized according to common types of language errors and grammatical features. Students can use these links to learn more about specific language problems that their tutor or teacher has pointed out in their writing.
If you have suggestions for specific links or types of language problems to add to this list, please e-mail writingcentre@hku.hk.
Articles, or More Broadly, Determiners (i.e., ‘a,’ ‘an,’ ‘the,’ or no article, and other determiners like ‘this,’ that,’ ‘these,’ ‘its’, etc)
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/article.htm
http://blog.esllibrary.com/2016/02/11/teaching-articles-a-an-and-the/
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/using_articles.html
http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/english-language/articles/
https://blog.tjtaylor.net/articles-explained/
Comma-splice Sentences
https://writingexplained.org/grammar-dictionary/comma-splice
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-splice/
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/the-comma-splice
Connectors
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/english_as_a_second_language/esl_students/combining_sentences/index.html
Dangling Modifier/Dangling Participle
https://writingexplained.org/grammar-dictionary/dangling-modifier
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/dangling_modifiers_and_how_to_correct_them.html
http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/revising/dangling-modifiers/
Fragment/Sentence Fragment
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/sentence_fragments.html
https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-sentence-fragment-definition-examples-quiz.html
Hedging and Boosting
https://www.griffith.edu.au/_designs/documentation/video-transcript?id=150336
https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/guides/hedges-softening-claims-in-academic-writing
http://elss.elc.cityu.edu.hk/ELSS/Resource/Practise%20Hedging%20in%20your%20Writing_Part%20Three/
Modals Verbs
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/modals/
https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/book/tentativity.aspx
https://www.york.ac.uk/res/elanguages/index/Modulecd/cu4s6/cu4s60401.htm
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/certain-probable-or-possible
Noun Phrases/Nominalization
https://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/3b.html
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/Nominalization/Nom%20LOC.html
Parallel Structure
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/parallel_structure.html
Passive Voice: When to use it, and when not to
http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/revising/passive-voice/
https://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/3avi.html
Plural, Singular, Countable, and Uncountable Nouns
http://awelu.srv.lu.se/grammar-and-words/common-problems-and-how-to-avoid-them/atypical-nouns/
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/nouns
https://www.aje.com/en/arc/editing-tip-singular-and-plural-forms-scientific-writing/
Prepositions
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/prepositions
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/prepositions/index.html
Pronoun Referencing
http://bethune.yorku.ca/writing/pronoun/
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/pronouns/index.html
Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/relative-clauses
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/Relative%20Clauses/Relative%20Clauses.html
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/relative-clauses/
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/relative_pronouns/index.html
Run-on Sentences
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm
Subject-Verb Agreement
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/subject_verb_agreement.html
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/sentences/20-rules-of-subject-verb-agreement.html
https://eslgold.com/grammar/subject_verb_agreement/
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/subjectverbagreement
https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/exercises/sva.aspx
Verb Tenses in Academic Writing
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/english-for-uni/tenses/
https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/writing/writing-resources/verb-tense