English Writing

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

Contents:

• Build a Sentence
  • Adverbial clauses by semantic function
  • Adverbs
  • Clauses
  • Distinguishing It-Clefts and Extraposition
  • Content clause
  • Focus Adjuncts
  • Phrases
  • Qualities
  • Relative adverb vs. non-relative adverb (CGEL)
  • Relative clause
  • Semantic Clauses
  • Common semantic roles
  • A sentence communicates one thought
  • Sentences
  • Syntactic Clauses
• While You Write
  • Common writing errors
  • Discourse flow
  • Final edits
  • Emphasis techniques
  • Nice sentence patterns
  • Sentence grammatical options
  • Paragraphs
  • Common semantic sentence patterns
  • Sentence openings
  • Tips for writing good sentences
  • Technique
  • Value
  • Words selection
• Grammar at a Glance
  • CGEL
  • Grammar analysis: Where to begin
  • Auxiliary Verbs
  • Cheat rules
  • Complements
  • Common errors
  • Focus
  • Grammar analysis gotchas
  • Predicate & predicatieve
  • Reference tables
  • Signalers
  • Structure
  • Key grammatical and semantic terms
  • Quick reference for tricky terms
• Linguistic Richness
  • Quantity
  • Adverbs
  • Complementizers
  • Coordinating Conjunctions
  • Coordination-like items
  • Correlative conjunctions
  • Degree adjuncts
  • Focus adjuncts
  • Focusing Modifier
  • Focusing Modifiers
  • Frequency adverbs
  • Prepositions used with relative pronouns in prepositional relatives
  • Prepositions
  • Subordinate conjunctions
  • Temporal adjuncts
  • Verb form
• Grammar Lists
  • Common verb classes that license secondary (object) predicatives
• Resources
• Prompts
  • Grammar chat
  • Review my sentence analysis
  • Request to analyze sentence
  • Interactive analysis
• Write-ups
• Sentences for grammatical analysis