'Online' Grammars of English

Questions:

• how do they differ from traditional grammars?
• what kinds of functionalities are offered by online grammars? How do they let you find out information? And what kind of information do they let you find out?
• what kinds of things can you do or look at or explore with the onling grammars that would be difficult with a print version?
  • how, for example, if you wanted to know the grammatical structure of relative clauses (such as the one in 'the man who ate the cake ran'), would you find out using online grammars and what answer do you get?
  • how, for example, if you wanted to know the difference between 'sprinkle', 'distribute' and 'divide', could you go about finding an answer? What would you need in order to be able to begin with such a question? Do any online grammars look promising from this perspective?
  • how, for example, if you wanted to find out a good grammatical structure for 'the book was easier than I thought', how and where could you find out? How would you do it with a traditional print grammar? How would you use the grammars to ask the question whether or not you can say 'the book was easier to read than I thought it' or 'the book was easier to read than I thought so'
• what kind of view do they each have of GRAMMAR itself? What is grammar, according to these sources?

Some online grammars of English:

Look at a couple or more of these to answer the questions above...

How do these compare and contrast with the following "online grammar of English"":