More Online Grammar Resources
Online Grammar Sites
- A Guide to Tutoring Non-Native English-Speaking Students This site has lots of downloadable worksheets that can help students understand their problems with English grammar. The answer keys are included, so this can be a good site for self-study.
- Grammar Bytes Exercises Great site! Interactive exercises for writing and grammar problems.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing from Capital Community College Foundation
- LexTutor Online Concordancer. What is a concordancer? Traditionally, it's a book that tells you where and how words are used in particular texts and how many times they are used. They have been compiled and used by scholars for hundreds of years. Today, computers make the job of "concordancing" very fast and easy. Use the online concordancer linked above to do a "grammar safari." Find out how particular words or combinations of words appear in selected English texts. Refer to this class handout for detailed instructions.
- English Verb Conjugator
- GED Prep Materials. This is a very comprehensive site by Chemeketa's own Jerry Graham. Check out the grammar exercises.
- English Tense Selector English verb structure is pretty simple--regular verbs have only four forms. However, as you know very well, using these forms correctly and in the correct combination is not so simple. The problem is learning which "tense" to use for what situation. This site looks at different communication purposes and shows which English verb tense(s) to use. It also provides lots of examples if you click on the tense links. There are even quizzes!
Grammar Exercises
- EnglishPage.com gerunds & infinitives tutorial
- Oxford Online Grammar Exercises. Use these interactive exercises to build your grammatical competency. The reading & writing exercises are especially useful. Try advanced practice exercises #1, 3, 4 and 8. Try Intermediate practice exercises #4, 8, 9 and 10. Then do the reading and writing exercises, starting with the intermediate level. Check your answers. Track your scores.
- Impersonal "It" and "There" ELC Study Zone
- More "It" and "There" ELC Study Zone
- There is and It is exercise ESL Student Lounge
- Michigan Clear Grammar Placement Test. This text has several parts. Try all the questions and get the answers online.
Practice COMPASS Tests online:
Here's a good site from a state college in Gainesville, Florida. Use it to practice taking the COMPASS Writing Test:
Here's a good site from a state college in Gainesville, Florida. Use it to practice taking the COMPASS Writing Test: