English writing

Useful Links

• How to write well?
• How to use an online dictionary?
• Discourse markers: nonetheless, however, even so, all the same, of course, if, still, certainly
• Sentence connectors expressing a contrast

A guide to punctuation

• Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
• Comma
• Colon and semicolon
• Hyphen
• Dash
• Apostrophes
• Quotation marks

A guide to the principal differences between American and British English

• American and British English: differences in grammar - I
• American and British English: differences in grammar - II
• American and British English: differences in vocabulary - I
• American and British English: differences in vocabulary - II
• American and British English: differences in vocabulary - III
• American and British English: differences in vocabulary - IV
• American and British English: differences in usage - I
• American and British English: differences in usage - II
• American and British English: differences in spelling

Popular Quotations

• Popular Quotations - I
  
• Popular Quotations - II
  
• Popular Quotations - III
  
• Popular Quotations - IV
  
• Popular Quotations - V
  
• Popular Quotations - VI
  

Figures of Speech

• Simile and Metaphor
  
• Personification and Apostrophes
  
• Hyperbole and Understatement
  
• Antithesis and Oxymoron
  
• Epigram, Irony, Pun and Metonymy
  
• Climax and Anticlimax
  

Others

• Formal letter writing tips New!
• 10 Resume Writing Tips New!
• Autobiography Writing Tips New!
• Precis writing tips
• How to write dates?
  
• Use of Capital letters
  
• Contractions
  
• Some useful spelling rules
  
• Paragraph writing
  
• Formal and informal speech and writing
• Newspaper headlines grammar
• Newspaper headlines vocabulary Updated!
• Italicization rules
• Letter writing
• Essay writing Updated!
• Numbers
• Email writing tips
• Resume writing
• Cover-letter writing
• Personal letter writing tips
• Thank you notes
• Condolence letter writing tips
• TOEFL writing tips New!

Going Deeper

For a comprehensive account of English grammar, visit our section English Grammar. For English grammar and vocabulary exercises, visit Grammar and vocabulary exercises. For Business English writing lessons visit Business English New!