Grammar Links for English Language Learners, Especially for Writers


This site provides links to other sites planned for ESL/EFL learners, especially sites that provide information about English grammar. In addition, links are provided to sites that provide information for writers in U.S. colleges and universities.


Guide to Grammar and Writing: Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut, created this site that combines information with various quizzes.  It also has links to sites for ESL/EFL students.

Cobuild Dictionary: The publisher of the Collins CoBuild Dictionary of the English Language provides information here about that dictionary and about their collection of information on the English language.

An Elementary Grammar: This site from the English Institute in the UK provides information for ESL learners at lower proficiency levels on various topics, including "word order, "articles," and others.

English Grammar Clinic: This site is prepared by the teachers at the Lydbury Language Centre. You can submit a question for them to answer or consult their list of Frequency Asked Questions.

Edunet Grammar Clinic: This is a frame version of the English Grammar Clinic.

Grammar and Style Notes: Jack Lynch collected these rules on grammar and style for use by his own students and now shares them with the world.

Grammar Help: Written by an ESL teacher and her students, these pages contain hints, rules and exercises on English grammar.

An On-Line English Grammar: This site from Auther Hughes is arranged alphabetically.

The LinguaCenter Grammar Safari: This innovative site provides a method for a learner to find out about how a particular type of grammar is used in context. As the authors say: "Students of English who limit their study of grammar to what they find in grammar books are like naturalists who limit their study of nature to an encyclopedia. Once you leave the safe confines of the grammar books, you begin to learn all kinds of interesting things about the way English is used. It isn't easy; in fact, it's a jungle out there. Grammar books tend to make things fairly simple and there is some value in that. Nevertheless, for the serious student of English, it's worthwhile also to broaden your horizons and explore the jungle out in the real world. The World Wide Web (WWW) is an excellent place to begin experiencing English as it occurs in its natural surroundings--not only are there millions of English texts readily available, but also most of them can be electronically searched for those elusive yet fascinating English grammar structures."

Undergraduate Writing Center ( Dictionaries and Thesauruses ): from the Writing Center at Texas Tech University: Use these to learn about parts of speech, sentences, clauses, and paragraph development.


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Pat Byrd

Applied Linguistics and ESL
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia USA 30303-3083
patbyrd@gsu.edu