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Grammar tips

Mary Morel has a large number of grammar tips at www.onlinegrammar.com.au

Recommended grammar websites

Apart from www.onlinegrammar.com.au, Online Writing Training recommends the following grammar websites:

• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar
• http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
• http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors
• http://grammar.about.com
• http://www.grammarbook.com

 Recommended YouTube clips on writing

• A humorous re-rendering of The Three Little Pigs
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OxoUUbMii7Q#!

• The power of words – it’s not what you say, but how you say it
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU

• A palindrome (reads the same forwards and backwards)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWSYPDh7O5Q

• An inspiring and informative TED talk on plain language
  http://www.ted.com/talks/sandra-fisher-martins-the-right-to-understand.html

• The old-fashioned spelling rule i before e except after c is apparently no longer taught in schools because there are 923 exceptions according to this QI excerpt
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqlZXiIZqA

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