GRAMMAR & STYLE
- Perdue OWL — Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition
- Perdue OWL — MLA Formatting and Style Guide
- Perdue OWL — APA Style GuidePerdue OWL Writing Lab sitemap — An overwhelming amount of information for writers of all kinds.
- Chicago Manual of Style — Requires subscription for full access.
- Bartleby.com — Strunk & White, Elements of Style.
- Grammarly — Program to check punctuation and grammar. Remember it’s not always correct.
- grammica.com — Check your grammar online.
grammarchecker.net/ — Online grammar check. - grammarcheck.net/editor/ — Online grammar check.
- Tips from our own Grammar Granny
MISUSED & UNNECESSARY WORDS
- Avoid Fillers to Write More Powerful Sentences
- To Cut or Not to Cut: Filler Words in Your Speech & Writing
- Archives for the ‘Misused Words’ from dailywritingtips.com
- Commonly Misused Words at hubpages.com
- Easily Confused or Misused Words
- Wikipedia list of commonly misused words
- 20 Most Misused Words from a Harvard linguist
- Archives for the ‘Misused Words’ from dailywritingtips.com
- Commonly Misused Words at hubpages.com
- Easily Confused or Misused Words
- Wikipedia list of commonly misused copy words
- 20 Most Misused Words from a Harvard linguist
PUNCTUATION
DICTIONARY
- Free dictionaries from Babylon Software — Many categories, Language, Translator, Thesaurus
- Cambridge Dictionary — Idioms, Phrasal verbs, Audio pronunciation
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary — Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Spanish-English
Onelook — Reverse Dictionary - Oxford Dictionaries — Quotations, First Name Dictionary, Ask expert, Writing help
- Dictionary.com — Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Word games, Crossword solver
- Specialist Online Dictionary — Computer, Scientific, Legal, Political, Philosophical, Music, Misc
- Your Dictionary — Grammar Rules & Usage, Industry specific dictionaries
- Medical Dictionary Medical conditions, Medications, Anatomical terms, amd more
- Legal dictionary Legal terms, Definitions, ABC list
- Thesaurus
SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the first word correctly. ~Burt Bacharach
An antonym is the opposite of the word you’re trying to think of. ~Unknown
Definitions:
- Synonym: A word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word.
- Antonym: A word having the opposite meaning of another word.
Resources:
- Thesaurus.com — Includes word games, tools, and resources
- Synonym.com — Enter words A-Z for synonyms, antonyms and definitions.
- Synonyms.net — Synonyms, antonyms, and thesaurus and visual wordmap (click on a synonym and the map will expand)
TRANSLATORS
- Translator – over 50 languages
- Babelfish Translator
- Free download Babylon Translation Software
QUOTES & IDIOMS
- The Quotations Page — Over 28,000 quotations online from over 3,400 authors
- Quoteland.com — Quotations by author, topic, art, dreams, love, sports, library
- ThoughtCo — Quotes: love, funny, wedding, short, Chinese, birthday, movie/TV, friendship, poems, spiritual, Shakespeare, business, holiday
- Theotherpages.org Quotations — Contains approximately 28,966 entries, and the Alpha by Topic is the best place to start.
- Citatum — Categorized Quotes.
- Idoims and Phrases from FreeDictionary.com
- Idiom Site