In our recent "Word Count" column, we featured Pam Nelson, veteran newspaper copy editor and author of the Triangle Grammar Guide blog. Last we she recommended blogs, this week she recommends this invaluable -- and exhaustive -- list of grammar and usage websites. Go Pam!

Capital Community College's Guide to Grammar and Writing

Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Writing

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

The Tongue Untied, a guide to grammar, punctuation and style for journalists

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"Fun" and "grammar" in the same sentence? These books make learning grammar a blast. Teachers of the world, rejoice!

Hot Fudge Monday by Randy Larson

DownWRITE Funny by Randy Larson

Comic-Strip Grammar by Dan Greenberg

Awesome Hands-on Activities For Teaching Grammar by Sasan Van Zile

In her 30 year career as a copy editor, its no surprise Pam Nelson has seen her share of grammar foibles. Hey, kidding about "its!" Now a features copy editor at North Carolina's News & Observer, she also writes the newspaper's popular blog on usage called the Triangle Grammar Guide. Readers from Raleigh, Durham -- and around the world -- shoot Pam their questions, rankles, bloopers, even a photo or two. We spoke to Pam about her grammar blog:

VT: What kinds of usage conundrums ruffle your readers?

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Pam Nelson, veteran newspaper copy editor and author of the Triangle Grammar Guide blog suggests these books the next time you're tearing your hair out over "who" verses "whom."

Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner

Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians, and its related website

Working with Words by Brian S. Brooks

Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker

Veteran copy editor Pam Nelson, who we feature in this week's "Word Count" column, suggests these blogs on copy editing and language:

John McIntyre's You Don't Say

Bill Walsh's The Slot

Andy Bechtel's The Editor's Desk

Pam Robinson's Words at Work

The aim of Common Errors in English is "to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak." The way this site meets this lofty goal is to catalogue an exhaustive list of usage errors. So the next time you're trying to figure out whether "people are healthy, vegetables are healthful," just click here.