English Writing

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

Contents:

• Build a Sentence
  • Semantic Clauses
  • Common semantic roles
• While You Write
  • Common writing errors
  • Discourse flow
  • Final edits
  • Emphasis techniques
  • Nice sentence patterns
  • Sentence grammatical options
  • A sentence is one thought
  • Paragraphs
  • Common semantic sentence patterns
  • Sentence openings
  • Tips for writing good sentences
  • Value
  • Words selection
• Grammar at a Glance
  • Grammar analysis: Where to begin
  • Cheat rules
  • Common errors
  • Grammar analysis gotchas
  • Phrases
  • Reference tables
  • Signalers
  • Structure
  • Syntactic Clauses
  • Key grammatical and semantic terms
  • Quick reference for tricky terms
• Linguistic Richness
  • Quantity
  • Adverbial clauses by semantic function
  • Coordinating Conjunctions
  • Coordination-like items
  • Correlative conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Subordinate conjunctions
  • Verb form
• Resources
• Write-ups
• Sentences for grammatical analysis
  • Prompt
  • Sentences