Grammar Websites for Extra Practice, Part One

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Good General ESL Sites
Dave’s ESL Café:
/ Focuses on grammar explanations, vocabulary (slang, idioms, phrasal verbs)
Interesting and useful activities for ESL students:
/ This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, a random-sentence generator and other computer-assisted language learning activities.
John Fleming’s Website:
/ Many (more advanced) grammar topics listed in the yellow side-bar.
EnglishClub.com
/ Ignore the ads and focus on the lessons: listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
Parts of Speech
Introduction (Overview of All Parts of Speech):


Go through each section; then take the quiz:

  • Parts of Speech Table
  • Parts of Speech Examples
  • Words with More than One Job
  • Parts of Speech Quiz
Note: This site groups “articles” with “adjectives.”
Parts Of Speech Quiz
Overview:The Parts of Speech
Quiz: Review: Parts of Speech?
Adjectives / Comic Introduction:
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Adjectives song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:

Introduction:
Overview:

Adjective quiz
What is an Adjective?
Adjectives for People
Practice Spelling Adjectives for People
Participial Adjectives (Video):

Adjective Order:
  • Adjective before noun
  • Adjective after certain verbs
  • Adjective order quiz
Nouns functioning as adjectives:

Adverbs / Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Adverbs song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:

Overview:


Adverb quiz (focuses on adverbs modifying verbs)
Introduction & Quiz:

Conjunctive Adverbs:

Conjunctive Adverbs #1
Conjunctive Adverbs #2
Conjunctive Adverbs #3
Conjunctive Adverbs #4
Conjunctive Adverbs #5
Conjunctive Adverbs #6
Adjectives,
Adverbs, & Linking Verbs /
Articles / Information:
Exercises:
1st of many pages at Dave’s ESL Café:

Conjunctions
Note: In Level 4, we focus on coordinating & subordinating
conjunctions only.
(You do not need to study correlative conjunctions.) / Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Conjunctions song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:

Overview:
(advanced)
Coordinating Conjunctions:

What is a Conjunction?
Nouns / Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Nouns song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:


Noun game
Prepositions / Comic Introduction:
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Prepositions song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:

Recognizing Prepositions:

What is a Preposition?
Prepositional Phrases:

Pronouns / Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Pronouns song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:

What is a Pronoun?
Pronoun game
Possessive Pronoun or Possessive Adjective?
  • Basic Explanation:

  • Practice:


Indefinite Pronouns:

From Dave’s ESL Café:
Pronouns #1
Pronouns #2
Pronouns #3
Pronouns #4
Verbs / Comic Introduction:
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
  • Verbs song YouTube Video:

  • Written words to the song:

Verb game
Recognizing verbs:

Main Verbs:

Helping Verbs:
Auxiliary Verbs
Modal Auxiliaries
  • Dave’s ESL Café has 36 pages on Understanding and Using Modal Verbs:
Transitive Verbs:

Intransitive Verbs:

Transitive/Intransitive Verb Quiz:

Linking Verbs:

Linking Verb Quiz:

Non-Action Verbs:

Phrasal Verbs:


Causative Verbs:
Causative Verbs in English
Tense Practice:

English Tenses:
Simple Present
Present Progressive
Simple Past
Past Progressive
Past Perfect
Future I (will)
Future I (going to)
Interjections / What is an Interjection?
Schoolhouse Rock:
  • Interjections song YouTube Video:
  • Written words to the song:

Noun Jobs
Listen & Read: I Love You: A Subject-Object Valentine

  • Subject and Predicate
  • Review: the Subject

  • Objects and Complements

Review Quiz: Review: Parts of the Sentence
Sentences with More than One Clause
Dependent Clauses
Adverb Clauses / John Fleming: Adverb Clauses
Adverb Clauses:

Recognizing Adverb Clauses:

Adjective Clauses
Note: You will learn a lot more about adjective clauses in Levels 5 & 6 / From Dave’s ESL Café:
Adjective Clauses #1
Adjective Clauses #2
Adjective Clauses #3
Adjective Clauses #4
Adjective Clauses #5
John Fleming: Adjective Clauses
Discussion of many kinds of adjective clauses:

Relative pronouns (who, whom, whose):
 Adjective Clauses
  • Lesson
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3

Noun Clauses
Note: You will learn a lot more about noun
clauses in Levels 5 & 6 / John Fleming: Noun Clauses
Advanced! functions-of-noun-clauses-in-english-a121013
Review of Clauses / Using Clauses as Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs
Review: Noun, Adjective, and Adverb Clauses
Clause Module:

Sentence Types / Simple, Compound, or Complex? Types of Sentences Quiz:


Advanced: The Sentence
  • What is a sentence? What is a clause? What is a dependent clause?