Idiotproof me

[TheFragile]

Does anyone know of a good English/grammar tutoring site? I'm taking an English class right now, and I've got this handy guide that tells me all sorts of rules about prepositions and verbs and modifiers and all sorts of things... unfortunately I can't remember exactly what those things are. This is all stuff that I should know for a college class, but having a four year break between high school and college has pretty much eliminated any knowledge I graduated with. Anyone know of a good site to make me smarts? :happy:

[LisaJaney]

This one looked promising (and free. I'm trying to stick to "free", since you're a student):
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/

And another one that looked good because it has things divided-up into sections like Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Verbs, Nouns, Sentence Structure, Punctuation, Tense-consistency, Worksheets for all that stuff...:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/

Here's a Grammar Mastery Test that is kinda nice. There were 34 questions when I took it. Some of the "who versus whom" questions were tough...
http://www.grammarbook.com/

This has a HUGE listing of words that are commonly mis-used (bail/bale, anxious/eager, disinterested/uninterested, etc):
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html (http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html)

And one more that's kinda general-looking:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Specific_Languages/English/Grammar__Usage__and_Style/

I got all these by googling the phrase english grammar site

Good luck!

ETA: I had 22 years between one college-endeavor and the next. The phrase "Use it or lose it" is SOOO right-on...and so depressing...:purplex: The GOOD news is that your brain is amazingly "plastic", meaning that you CAN learn new things and create new pathways for the things you've forgotten. That thought alone made me able to endure a particularly gruelling college re-entrance this past fall. :evileye: This will get easier and easier for you, not to worry!

OH, last thing (this is all part of my ETA) I hear that a Menonite publishing company called Rod and Staff (from Crockett KY) has a magnificent grammar handbook that I always meant to get while I was homeschooling my boys. I think it was about $12? I hear nothing but GOOD stuff about that book, and it's reputed to be a wealth of info crammed into one source. I still think I ought to get it. In fact, I think I'll probably just DO it now... I don't have to take any more English classes, but it'd be a nice addition to my personal library :eureka: