Grammar, language arts, literary terms, figures of speech, linguistics, English accents
A guide to top English grammar and language websites
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Accents
21 Accents
How to speak different accents, lessons on YouTube video, by Amy Walker.
How to speak like Brian Sewell
The English Language in 24 Accents. YouTube
Learn British accents and dialects: Cockney, RP, Northern, and more!
Sound like a Native English Speaker. English Jade
Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors’ Accents
Figures of speech, literary terms, literary style
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk.
Figures of Speech, Types of Figurative Language
Figures of speech.
Wikipedia entry.
Roget Thesaurus Classification
Wiktionary
World Wide Words
Investigating international English from a British standpoint. Topical words, turns of phrase.
Grammar
ThoughtCo
Grammar & Composition, a guide by By Richard Nordquist.
English Language and Usage
English Language & Usage Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts. It’s 100% free, no registration required.
The Bluebook
Grammar and Punctuation. The Mysteries Revealed
Online grammar checkers
AbiWord
A free open source word processing program that includes a grammar checker.
Grammarly
Check online for grammatical mistakes and plagiarism.
Language Tool
A free open source grammar checker that is designed to help users identify the most common grammatical mistakes in their text.
Grammarly
Check online for grammatical mistakes and plagiarism.
English Grammar
A blog that offers grammar lessons, exercises and rules for everyday use. Exercise, test and check your grammar online. The blog also carries video lessons.
English as a second language. ThoughtCo
English Software
English writing software, grammar checker and a blog with free writing tips.
Exercises in grammar, spelling and writing.
BBC
Grammar on the Web. A Web of On-line Grammars
Links to world languages (Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. US).
GrammarBook
Rules of grammar, punctuation and capitalization.
Oxford English Dictionaries
Ask the Oxford dictionary about questions of grammar and style.
P
Punctuation, sentence construction. BBC
S
Semantics
Wikipedia
Syntax
Wikipedia
Terms and devices of grammar.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia entries on Grammar.
Grammatical terms and devices.
Writing for Teens
Techniques, grammar, style from About.com.
Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms by language.
Wiktionary
British National Corpus
A “100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
Courses
Ethnologue
A catalogue of over 6700 human languages.
Glossary of linguistic terms,
by Eugene E. Loos (general editor).
Languages on the Web
A directory of language-learning websites.
Literary terms, rhetorical terms: a glossary.
Roget Thesaurus Classification.
Wiktionary
Wiktionary,
a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Latin
Carmenta Online Latin School
High-quality online Latin classes using live audio and video.This course, taught live by a real teacher in an online web conferencing classroom, is an excellent choice for homeschoolers, people studying in an academic setting where Latin is not offered, people who do not have access to a Latin course where they live, or those for whom the online classroom is more convenient.
Linguistics
Center for Applied Linguistics
CAL carries out a wide range of activities including research, teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis.
The Virtual Linguist
A blog on trends in linguistics by Susan Harvey, or Susan Purcell. Susan is the author of several books, including BBC Talk French Grammar, The Kingfisher Illustrated Pocket Dictionary and The Kingfisher Illustrated Pocket Thesaurus. She is co-editor of The Puzzler Crossword Solver’s Dictionary.
David Crystal
A blog by renowned Professor of Linguistics David Crystal.
A Walk in the Words
A linguistic tour for people who love having fun with words and language. A place to share interesting linguistic observations regarding sound, meaning and structure.
Historical linguistics
Ancient Scripts – Historical Linguistics
Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
Chronology: History of English
Chronology of Events in the History of English” summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millennia.
Indo-European and the Comparative Method
Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.
Wikipedia entries on linguistics.
Literary terms
Literary and poetic terms.
A list of terms; from Cyber English, by Ted Nellen.
Literary Terms
This webpage contains an alphabetical glossary of literary terms and their definitions. It focuses particularly on classical and medieval literature, the history of the English language, and science fiction narratives.
Poetic terms, a list of definitions.
Wikipedia index of literary terms.
Rhetoric
The Forest of Rhetoric, Silva Rhetoricae
Online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
Kairos,
a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
Rhetoric. A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Rhetoric Society of America
RSA is a scholarly organization dedicated to studying, teaching, and practicing rhetoric.