Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subject Verb Agreement
This tutorial focuses on subject-verb agreement in a variety of media. It provides the basic rules of subject-verb agreement with examples in textual format. It also provides a YouTube video with in-depth rules for subject-verb agreement...
Towson University
Towson University: Subject Verb Agreement
This webpage provides a list of nine rules for subject-verb agreement including examples with detailed explanations including arrows and notes as well as exceptions to the rules. It also provides links to terms which are defined with...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:diction and Tone (English I Reading)
In this learning module, the user will learn and apply the concepts of tone and diction. Tone is the author's attitude toward the writing. Tone is largely determined by diction or the words that an author chooses.
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Ii Reading)
This lesson will help students identify diction and tone in their reading and will help them answer these questions: What does the author mean? What is the author's attitude about what he or she is writing? How will my understanding of a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to find the tone in a passage using a close reading strategy. They will also look at diction and discover that examining a writer's...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic and Rhetorical Devices
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Time
In this self-guided unit, you will be working with literature which is centered on the themes of past, present and future. You will experience several different literary perceptions of the past and the future by reading ancient...
Other
The Phrase Finder: Meanings and Origins of Phrases
The free section of this site provides the meanings and origins of thousands of quotations, euphemisms, popular fallacies and misheard song lyrics. A British site, some of the expressions are not familiar to most Americans.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic a Rhetorical Details
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we read....
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Modernism
A succinct definition of modernism, with examples of authors and styles.
Harvard University
The Great Vowel Shift
Do you know what the Great Vowel Shift is? Check out this site to learn more how this shift played a part in the history of the English Language.
City University of New York
Cuny Brooklyn: Literary Terms
Site gives definitions of many literary terms including "characterization."
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Dictionaries and Meanings
Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words,...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Subject Verb Agreement
This site has a ten question quiz which provides a way to print results with a name and course. Explanations are provided for incorrect answers. Based on material by Evelyn Farbman and Houghton Mifflin, used by permission.
University of California
Can the English Language Survive?
Due to the "reliance on electronic media, rampant proliferation of homophonous misuses of the English language" has taken place. Test your knowledge on this quiz of homophones.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Alliteration
This site fully explores the term "alliteration." Content includes a definition, examples in literature, and a look at why and how it has been used throughout literary history.
University College London
University College London: Adjectives
This University College London site features an extended grammar lesson on adjectives and their use. Includes an exercise to test your knowledge.
University College London
University College London: Nominal Adjectives
This tutorial site provides a detailed lesson on the purpose and use of nominal adjectives. Includes examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Asyndeton
This is a glossary entry for the term "Asyndeton" including definitions, an example, and links to more information.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Epithet
This is a glossary entry for the term "Epithet" including definitions and examples from a number of poets.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Inversion
This is a glossary entry for the term "Inversion" including definition and literary examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Kennings
This is a glossary entry for the term "Kennings" including multiple definitions and examples including links to more examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Syllepsis
This is a glossary entry for the term "Syllepsis" including definitions and links to more information and examples.