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Grammar Websites for Extra Practice, Part One
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Good General ESL Sites Dave’s ESL Café: http://www.eslcafe.com/students/
Focuses on grammar explanations, vocabulary (slang, idioms, phrasal verbs)
Interesting and useful activities for ESL students: www.ManyThings.org
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: http://faculty.deanza.edu/flemingjohn/
Many (more advanced) grammar topics listed in the yellow side-bar.
EnglishClub.com http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/index.htm
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):
http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/language/eslgrammar/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/1/
Go through each section; then take the quiz:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech.htm
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: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/grammarcom2.html
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Adjectives song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzGLzFuwxI
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Unpack.html
Introduction: http://www.eslgold.net/grammar/adjectives.html Overview: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/adjective.htm Adjective quiz
What is an Adjective? Adjectives for People
Practice Spelling Adjectives for People
Participial Adjectives (Video): http://www.manythings.org/b/e/4621 Adjective Order:
Adjective before noun Adjective after certain verbs Adjective order quiz
Nouns functioning as adjectives: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-group-adjective.htm
Adverbs
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Adverbs song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7wnT8iiR8w
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Lolly.html
Overview: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/adverb.htm http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adverb.htm Adverb quiz (focuses on adverbs modifying verbs)
Introduction & Quiz: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adverbs.htm
Conjunctive Adverbs: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_ohb_1/27/7023/1798009.cw/content/index.html
Conjunctive Adverbs #1 Conjunctive Adverbs #2 Conjunctive Adverbs #3 Conjunctive Adverbs #4 Conjunctive Adverbs #5 Conjunctive Adverbs #6
Adjectives, Adverbs, & Linking Verbs
http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/adverb.html
Articles Information: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/
Exercises: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/2/1
1st of many pages at Dave’s ESL Café: http://www.eslcafe.com/grammar/using_english_articles01.html
Conjunctions Note: In Level 4, we focus on coordinating & subordinating conjunctions only. (You do not need to study correlative
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Conjunctions song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGA7ssL-6g
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Conjunction.html
Overview: http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/conjunctions.htm http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm (advanced)
conjunctions.) Coordinating Conjunctions: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/coordinatingconjunction.htm What is a Conjunction?
Nouns
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Nouns song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-ukN1Rvb8
Written words to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-ukN1Rvb8
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns.htm Noun game
Prepositions
Comic Introduction: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/grammarcom3.html
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Prepositions song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4jIC5HLBdM
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Busy.html
Recognizing Prepositions: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/preposition.htm What is a Preposition? Prepositional Phrases: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/prepositionalphrase.htm
Pronouns
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Pronouns song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg9MKQ1OYCg
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Rufus.html
What is a Pronoun?
Pronoun game
Possessive Pronoun or Possessive Adjective?
Basic Explanation:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/poss.htm
Practice: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/poss1.htm http://www.allenglish.org/Activities/activities-possessiveadjposspron1.html
Indefinite Pronouns: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/pronouns-indefinite.htm
From Dave’s ESL Café: Pronouns #1 Pronouns #2 Pronouns #3 Pronouns #4
Verbs
Comic Introduction: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/grammarcom1.html
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Verbs song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QEzJe6_ok
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Verb.html
Verb game
Recognizing verbs: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/verb.htm
Main Verbs: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-what_classification-main.htm
Helping Verbs:
Auxiliary Verbs
Modal Auxiliaries
Dave’s ESL Café has 36 pages on Understanding and Using Modal Verbs:
http://www.eslcafe.com/grammar.html
Transitive Verbs: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/transitiveverb.htm
Intransitive Verbs: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/intransitiveverb.htm
Transitive/Intransitive Verb Quiz: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/rvtrintr.html
Linking Verbs: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/link.html Linking Verb Quiz: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/rvlink.html
Non-Action Verbs: http://www.eslgold.net/grammar/nonaction_verbs.html
Phrasal Verbs:
http://esl.about.com/cs/intermediate/f/f_phrasal.htm
http://www.eslcafe.com/pv/
Causative Verbs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x-Sw46Nt1w
Tense Practice: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4N27kbMdk
Written words to the song: http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Interjections.html
Noun Jobs Listen & Read: I Love You: A Subject-Object Valentine http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/subject-object.aspx?et_cid=30221800&et_rid=233070128&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fgrammar.quickanddirtytips.com%2fsubject-object.aspx
o Subject and Predicate o Review: the Subject
o 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: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/advcls.htm
Recognizing Adverb Clauses: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/adverbclause.htm
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: http://www.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/dloos/Grammar/adjectiveclauses/adjective_clauses_introduction.htm Relative pronouns (who, whom, whose):
http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/who_whom.html
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! http://www.suite101.com/content/the-eight-
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: http://lessons.englishgrammar101.com/EnglishGrammar101/Module2/Overview2.aspx
Sentence Types
Simple, Compound, or Complex? Types of Sentences Quiz: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvsntstr.html
Advanced: The Sentence What is a sentence? What is a clause? What is a dependent clause?