English Writing

Ideas for better English writing — with practical tips, tools, and references

Contents:

• Build a Sentence
  • Actions alternatives
  • Adverbial clauses by semantic function
  • Adverbs
  • Adverb: relative vs. non-relative (CGEL)
  • Adverbs usage
  • CGEL clause types
  • Clauses
  • Cleft: it-clefts vs. extraposition
  • Conjunctions
  • Content clause
  • Focus adjuncts
  • Interjections
  • Participles usage
  • Passive clause
  • Phrases
  • Postmodifiers
  • Qualities
  • Relative adverb vs. non-relative adverb (CGEL)
  • Relative clause
  • Semantic clauses
  • Semantic roles
  • Sentence communicates one thought
  • Sentences
  • Stacked clauses
  • Stranding
  • Subjects
  • Syntactic clauses
  • Tenseless subordinate clause
  • Verb form
  • Word categories
• While You Write
  • Common writing errors
  • Conjunctions
  • Discourse flow
  • Final edits
  • Emphasis techniques
  • Fronting
  • Nice sentence patterns
  • Sentence grammatical options
  • Paragraphs
  • Passive
  • Common semantic sentence patterns
  • Sentence openings
  • Tips for writing good sentences
  • Technique
  • Topic prominent (fronting)
  • Value
  • Words selection
• Grammar at a Glance
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Analysis of a sentence: Where to begin
  • Auxiliary Verbs
  • CGEL
  • Cheat rules
  • Complements
  • Common errors
  • Focus
  • Future
  • Gotchas
  • Participles
  • Predicator & predicative
  • Prepositions
  • Reference tables
  • Signalers
  • Structure
  • Terminology
  • Tricky terms
  • Verbs
• Linguistic Richness
  • Adverbs
  • Auxiliary verbs
  • Comparative/similarity prepositions
  • Coordinating Conjunctions
  • Coordination-like items
  • Correlative conjunctions
  • Degree adjuncts
  • Degree/extent determinatives
  • Focus adjuncts
  • Focus modifiers
  • Frequency adverbs
  • Interjections
  • Prepositions introducing subordinate clauses
  • Prepositions by ABC
  • Prepositions by ABC concise
  • Prepositions by category
  • Prepositions categories
  • Prepositions by category
  • Quantity determinative classes
  • Quantity determinatives
  • Subordinate conjunctions
  • Subordinators
  • Temporal adjuncts
  • Verb form
• Grammar Lists
  • Adjectives complementation
  • Adjectives: Irregular
  • Adjectives: prepositions
  • Adjectives: restricted or special -ly form
  • Adverbs: Basic
  • Adverbs: Flat
  • Complex prepositions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositions by complement
  • Complex prepositions
  • Prepositions postposition
  • Prepositions used with relative pronouns in prepositional relatives
  • Verbs: irregular
  • Verb classes that license a secondary (object) predicatives
• Resources
• Prompts
  • Grammar chat
  • Review my sentence analysis
  • Request to analyze sentence
  • Interactive analysis
• Write-ups
• Sentences for grammatical analysis