“Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language.”
― Munia Khan
1. Choose a topic. (Bold Titles:)
2. Choose a source. ~ Example Source Title
3. Click on the title of the source. It is a link to the original website.
Online Lessons:
~ Oxford Online English
~ Collins Dictionary – Easy Learning
~ Using English for Academic Purposes
~ Education First
~ Guide to Grammar
“Thou has most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school… It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.”
― William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry VI
Formal Exercises:
~ British Council
~ Englisch Hilfen (German site)
~ English Grammar (Austrian site)
~ English Grammar (American site for native and nonnative speakers)
“Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.”
― B. J. Chute
Games:
~ Free Rice (simple exercises) Bonus: your correct answers will donate rice to the World Food Program
~ Wordwall (Example: Passive Voice Cards)
“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin – a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn’t, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren’t available to the Romans.”
― Bill Bryson
PowerPoints
More coming soon!
PowerPoint Quizzes – Practice the Topic!
- Parts of Speech: Nouns
- Parts of Speech: Pronouns
- Parts of Speech: Adjectives
- Parts of Speech: Verbs
- Parts of Speech: Adverbs
- Parts of Speech: Question Words
- Sentence Connectors (Any)
- Sentence Connectors: Coordinating Conjunctions and Commas
- Sentence Connectors: Subordinating Conjunctions and Commas
- Sentence Connectors: Subordinating Conjunctions (categories)
- Sentence Connectors: Relative Pronouns
- Sentence Connectors: Sentence Adverbs (used in sentences)
- Sentence Connectors: Sentence Adverbs (categories)
- Sentence Connectors: Other Connecting Expressions
- Nouns: Proper versus Common
- Nouns: Count versus Non-count
- Nouns: Animate versus Inanimate
- Nouns: Singular versus Plural
- Nouns: Abstract versus Concrete
- Nouns: Suffixes -er, -or, -ist
- Nouns: Suffixes -ion, etc.
- Nouns: Suffixes -ship, -ing, -ion, -nce, -ment
- Nouns: Suffixes -sion, -tion, -ence, -ance
- Adjectives: Comparative & Superlative
- Adjectives: -ed and -ing
- Verbs: Gerunds & Infinitives
- Verbs: Past Forms
- Verbs: Present Forms
- Verbs: Future Forms
- Verbs: Modal Forms
- Verbs: Passive Voice (Self-Test Cards)
- Verbs: Past Forms (Passive)
- Verbs: Present Forms (Passive)
- Verbs: Future Forms (Passive)
- Verbs: Modal Forms (Passive)
- Verbs: Modal Verbs and Time Shifting
- Verbs: Modals and Phrasal Modals
- Verbs: Modal Verbs and Facts, Hypotheses, and Opinions
- Verbs: Spin the Wheel!
- Verbs: Real Conditionals (If and When)
- Verbs: Conditionals (If-Real)
- Verbs: Conditionals (Unreal)
- Verbs: Wish Verb (Unreal)
- Questions: Change Statements to Yes/No Questions
- Questions: Change Statements to WH- Questions
- Questions: Organize the Sentence
- Questions: Indirect Questions
- Questions: Tag Questions
- Attributive Expressions/Tags (Giving credit to other sources)
- Facts or Opinions?
- Facts, Hypotheses, and Opinions (Modal Verbs)
More coming soon!
Need more practice? These sites have many advertisements, but their activities are good.
~ Perfect English Grammar (American site)
~ English 4U (German site)
~ Ego4U English Grammar Online
~ Agenda Web (Grammar, Reading, Listening, and Vocabulary)
“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.”
― Robert Graves
Other Grammar
Articles
It is difficult to test articles in short exercises because–without context–there is often more than one possible answer. (Each answer has a different meaning, but it’s still possible.)
For example:
I’d like to have a dog someday. = I don’t have a dog now, but I want to get one.
I’d like to have the dog someday. = I know a specific dog, and I want it, but someone else has it right now.
I’d like wine for my birthday. = I want people to give me bottles of wine as a gift.
I’d like some wine for my birthday. = I want to have a few glasses of wine for my birthday.
I’d like the wine for my birthday. = I am at a restaurant or bar, and the waiter just asked me which drink I want. There is one kind of wine on the menu.
- Using Articles in English
- Examples of Article Usage (Grammarly)
- More Examples of Article Usage (Wall Street English)
- Even More Examples of Article Usage (English Club)
Phrasal Verbs
- Top 60 Phrasal Verbs – 4 Lists and Exercises
- Phrasal Verbs Exercises
- Choose the Missing Verb
- Choose the Missing Particle
- List of Meanings for 150 Most Common Phrasal Verbs
Ergative Verbs
Note: Study these after you understand passive voice and active voice!
- Ergative Verbs: Basics and Practice
- Ergative Verbs: More Information
- Ergative Verbs: More Practice
- Ergative Verbs: The Comprehensive Chapter
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion
Advanced Grammar & Rhetorical Devices
Parallelism
- Basic Parallelism (WikiHow)
- Parallelism as a Literary Device
- Examples of Parallelism in Literature and Rhetoric
- Parallelism: Explanations and Practice
Subjunctive
- Subjunctive
- What is the Subjunctive Mood?
- Use of the Subjunctive Mood
- If English Have a Subjunctive, What Be It?
- The Subjunctive in (British) English and Spanish
“Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.”
― Mark Twain