Narrative present tense

30. ANALYZED Common Errors in English

Oops, I think I do still "LOTS" of mistakes, but I´m an ESL-Student and...,..and nonetheless, I think that´s just a good way to learn from other people´s typical grammar mistakes.

Recognize YOUR mistakes:

Common Grammatical Errors
Accurately described incorrect/correct sample sentences
http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/rok/grammar.html

Englishplus.com
Accurately described incorrect/correct sample sentences
http://englishplus.com/grammar/mistcont.htm

Common Errors In English Usage
Compared definitions based on error-prone word pairs
With search engine
http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html
Scroll down on this page !

http://www.cbi.edu/literature/errors.htm

University of Kentucky
Prof. Robert Tannenbaum´s very useful hints
http://www.uky.edu/~rst/Hints%20index.html
or
http://www.uky.edu/~rst/Hints.html

Hit Parade of Errors, University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/hitparade.html

Oxford´s Classic Errors
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/?view=

Jack Lynch´s Grammar and Style Notes
http://www.tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~ub/HTML/englishgrammar.html

English Language Institute
http://www.eli.ubc.ca/students/language/index.html

Karen´s Linguistics Issues
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/commonerrorsinenglish.html

J. Hodges
http://www.thomasu.edu/people/jhodges/gramglos.htm

Language Error Analysis (interactive)
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/analysis/index.htm
Click on Student Writing 1 - 7

List of commonly misused English language phrases
Accurately described incorrect/correct sample sentences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_frequently_misused_English_words

Garbl´s Editorial Style Manual
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/a.htm

More ?, Go to the GRAMMAR section.

29. Grammar (Who needs more ?)

Complete English Grammar - You don´t need more

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Capital Community
College Foundation
(Nonprofit Organisation)




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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Grammar Index:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

The Tongue Untied !
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/toc.html

Hyper Grammar
University of Ottawa
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/ar/partsp.html

Guide To Grammar And Style
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
Grammar Index
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/contents.htm

Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html
Grammar Index
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

Online Englisch Grammar
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm



A Friendly Grammar of Englisch
http://www.beaugrande.com/UPLOADGRAMMARHEADER.htm

Finnish Virtual University
http://kiepc10.cc.tut.fi/tamo/awe/grammar/index.html

Literacy Education Online
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/catalogue.html#gram

Grammar Monster
http://www.grammar-monster.com/

Paradigm
http://www.powa.org/content/view/244/108/

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
http://www.bartelby.com/64/

The Internet Grammar of English
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/frames/contents.htm

Big Dog´s Grammar
http://aliscot.com/bigdog/index.htm

English at home
http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/
http://www.english-at-home.com/speaking/

ESL Introduction
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/efl/main.asp

ESL BEE (Writing)
http://eslbee.com/

Michael Harvey´s
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/rhetoric.html

28. Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs are verbs + particle (adverb or "preposition") with idiomatic expression.

Prepositions: see LINK






Introduction about separable and inseparable
phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions
READ IT !
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/efl/phrasalverbs.asp
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/efl/phrasalverbstransitive.asp
continue on the bottom

Another Introduction about separable and inseparable
phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions
READ IT !
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/630/01/
continue on the bottom

Verb and Preposition "Dictionary"
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html
Preposition and Phrasal Verbs
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html

Phrasal Verb VIDEO Dictionary (weird)
http://web.li.gatech.edu/~rdrury/600/oral/video/dictionary.html

A lot of Phrasals
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/easy/phrase.htm

"Phrasalverbdemon"
http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/index.html phrasalverbs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb

27. Idioms [+ Proverbs)

English Idioms And Quizzes
http://www.idiomconnection.com/

Wordpower A - Z Category
http://www.wordpower.ws/idioms/a.html

Learn English Today
http://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idioms_proverbs.html

The Free Dictionary, use the browse feature
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get+tongue+around
(scroll down)

Using English
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/

Idiomsite.com
http://www.idiomsite.com/

Idioms with pictures
http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html

Anna says:
Idioms and Phrasals are just a good way to learn a foreign LANGUAGE. There are certain differences between Idioms and Phrasal verbs. It´s easy to understand: Idioms are expressions which have a meaning that´s not (so) obvious from the individual words (of the "idiomatic expression" - THE "Idiom"). The single words have combined their "own" meaning. Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle (Prepositions, Adverbs), and they are partly separable and are following the tense patterns. What´s the best way to learn idioms ?. Use the given context and give the literal meaning of the single words as compound a new figurative context-related meaning, a new connotation. But take care, if you don´t know the literal (or even additional figurative) meanings of the single words which "merged to the idiom", then you´re in trouble as ESL-Student. You´d be screwed because there´s always an at least slight connection between the denotation of the single words and the connotation of the idiom. If you´re learning some new Idiom, and you see new words do some lookups and learn ALL the literal and figurative meanings of the single words too. BTW, Idioms are not that bad, they are "just Units" with own meaning and most of the idioms are fixed in their form.

26. ESL Podcasts + Academic Podcasts

Aj Hodge´s Effortless English Club
With free transcripts
http://www.effortlessenglish.libsyn.com/
Or enter his site via:
http://www.effortlessenglishclub.blogspot.com/

EnglishPOD - 4 ESL Levels (Good Job !)
http://www.englishpod.com/
(Huge archive, tagged topics)

Directory of Colleges and Universities
with Itunes sites:
http://itunesu.pbwiki.com

25. Some Dictionaries With Specific Topics

http://www.sex-lexis.com
http://www.synomizer.com Synonyms
http://www.acronymfinder.com
http://www.effingpot.com Britspeak
http://www.peak.org/~j.php AE-BE|BE-AE
http://engrish.com "All your base are belong to us"
http://fonetiks.org/index.html Phonetics
http://www.wordinfo.info/ Wordinfo
http://www.etymonline.com Etymology
http://www.oxid.ro Interesting browsing-features
http://www.juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/Hyphenator
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cg Pronunciation Dictionary

You think you know "a certain word", or you´ve heard one somewhere but you have no idea about the rihgt spelling ?, that´s why you can´t find any entries in dictionaries ?, Go there, do the spell check with your similar misspelled word and find so "your" correct spelled word:

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp
(Great Performance)

http://www.spellcheck.net/


If you want to find some special slang expression or such idioms go to Google and do some lookups there. Maybe you have to disable SafeSearch. You could search for urbandictionary for example, or just double-click on: urbandictionary
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