Grammar Websites for Extra Practice, Part One
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Feel free to e-mail me with questions or feedback: ljensen@sccd.ctc.edu
Good General ESL Sites
Dave’s ESL Café:
http://www.eslcafe.com/students/
Interesting and useful activities for ESL
students:
www.ManyThings.org
John Fleming’s Website:
http://faculty.deanza.edu/flemingjohn/
EnglishClub.com
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/index.htm
Focuses on grammar
explanations, vocabulary (slang,
idioms, phrasal verbs)
This web site is for people
studying English as a Second
Language (ESL). There are
quizzes, word games, word
puzzles, proverbs, slang
expressions, a randomsentence generator and other
computer-assisted language
learning activities.
Many (more advanced)
grammar topics listed in the
yellow side-bar.
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?
Comic Introduction: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/grammarcom2.html
Adjectives
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:
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Adjective before noun
Adjective after certain verbs
Adjective order quiz
Nouns functioning as adjectives:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-group-adjective.htm
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
Adverbs
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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/inde
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
Information: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/
Articles
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.
Schoolhouse Rock Song:
 Conjunctions song YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGA7ssL-6g
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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)
(You do not need
to study correlative
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
Comic Introduction: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/grammarcom3.html
Prepositions
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
Comic Introduction: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/grammarcom1.html
Verbs
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
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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
Causative Verbs in English
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)
What is an Interjection?
Interjections
Schoolhouse Rock:
 Interjections song YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4N27k
 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/subjectobject.aspx?et_cid=30221800&et_rid=233070128&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fgrammar.quickanddirtytips.com%2fsubjec
object.aspx
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Subject and Predicate
Review: the Subject
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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
From Dave’s ESL Café:
Note: You will learn a lot
more about adjective
clauses in Levels 5 & 6
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/adjectiv
eclauses/adjective_clauses_introduction.htm
Relative pronouns (who, whom, whose):
http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/who_whom.html
 Adjective Clauses
 Lesson
 Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Noun Clauses
Note: You will learn a lot
more about noun
clauses in Levels 5 & 6
Review of Clauses
John Fleming: Noun Clauses
Advanced! http://www.suite101.com/content/the-eightfunctions-of-noun-clauses-in-english-a121013
Using Clauses as Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs
Review: Noun, Adjective, and Adverb Clauses
Clause Module:
http://lessons.englishgrammar101.com/EnglishGrammar101/M
odule2/Overview2.aspx
Sentence Types
Simple, Compound, or Complex? Types of Sentences Quiz:
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz125805e69020.html
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvsntstr.html
Advanced: The Sentence
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What is a sentence? What is a clause? What is a dependent clause?