Where can I get material for learning EBNF?

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Extended Backus–Naur Form: EBNF

I'm very new to parsing concepts. Where can I get sufficiently easy to read and follow material for writing a grammar for the boost::spirit library, which uses a grammar similar to EBNF?

Currently I am looking into EBNF from Wikipedia.

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