Grammar Websites for Extra Practice, Part One

Hold the control key down; then click on the underlined links.

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/

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?