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THE LONGMAN LANGUAGE EXERCISE ZONE
Work
those linguistic muscles
Does your grammar need serious beefing up? Check out Longman's interactive
test bank of exercises, designed to help students improve their grammar
and writing skills. ExerciseZone contains 2,500 exercises in ten practice
topics that most frequently give students difficulty including verb
tenses, pronouns and sentence grammar. |
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GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING
Charles
Darling goes the whole hog
Finished the Longman exercises but not too sure why you were wrong?
Look no further for a grammar guru. Eminently fatherly in his tone
of voice, Professor Charles Daly walks you through everything you
ever wanted to know about grammar and essay writing. An invaluable
online reference. |
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WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS
Bill
Daly's D-I-Y Essay Fundamentals
Not the most aesthetically appealing site we've seen but there's no
denying that the guy knows his stuff. Heck, RJC links to this site
as well, so that must count for something! A site which rewards the
patient and persevering. |
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NUMBER TWO'S VOCAB BUILDER
Dynamically updated
Vocab Assesments
Named after the 2B pencils so necessary for Optical Mark Sheet tests,
Number Two's Vocabulary Builderis amazing for its personalized word
lists that adapt to your ability level. Look up, too, their Daily
Word feature and the help they offer for the SAT. Who said that there's
no such thing as a free lunch anymore? |
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VISUAL THESAURUS
Eye candy that's
also a feast for the mind
An experiment in interface and lanuage, Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus
pushes the web's ability to help us understand the relationships between
wods and their meanings by displaying these as spatial maps. While
its databank of words is considerably small, this one was just too
beautiful to leave out. Good for a one-off visit. |
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QUOTELAND
No more Reader's
Digest Quotes for me!
God gave some people the ability to say the right words at the right
time. God gave us this website so that we'd have the ability to locate
those words when we need them. One of the better quote collections
out there (but also see Quote Garden), Quoteland comes equipped with
a nifty search engine that works reasonably well. Do remember, that
quotes are used sparingly at best in a GP essay. |
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PHRASE FINDER
"Out of the
mouths of babes and sucklings" and other such come-agains
Books would probably be more comprehensive, but if you're online and
need to look up the origin of a particular phrase or saying ("off
with his head", "on a wing and a prayer") you might want to start
here. |
