Words & Writing

Automatically generate humorous complaint letters. Just tell it whom to complain about, and the automatic complaint-letter generator will do the rest. A different letter every time!

Wordplay, Word Puzzles, and Word Games

The Premier Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus

TIP Sheets help you with basic writing skills and more.

A free English grammar textbook for native and ESL speakers with lessons on grammar, the structure of English words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, punctuation, writing style, and usage.

Readability Formulas .com is a free website to automatically calculate the reading level and grade level of your materials. We also offer advice on how to improve your writing and write effectively for your readers.

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The Phrase Thesaurus - Search the database of 20,000 Phrases and Sayings

The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing. Javascript and cgi-based quizzes (form enabling required). Acrobat Reader, sound card, and PowerPoint recommended but not required.

Online demo of Grammar Slammer--Answers for all your English Grammar questions online

A portal to the many interesting and useful sites maintained by The Owlcroft Company.

Check out http://writersresourcedirectory.com! Writer's Resource Directory is a free site for writers and authors filled with writing and publishing links and information.

A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

Toolsuite for visualizing and exploring passages of text.

Power Thesaurus is a free, fast, comprehensive and easy-to-follow online thesaurus for writers.

Phrases.com: A crowdsourced multilingual online dictionary for common phrases, idioms and sayings that can be easily navigated, pronounced, and translated to many languages ©2020 STANDS4 LLC

automatic Part-of-speech tagging of texts

Roget"s Thesaurus for the new millenium

LanguageTool is a free proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 20 other languages.