Grammar for English Language Learners

All levels

Business English Grammar (ALL LEVELS)

Present Forms; The Past Simple; Irregular Verbs; Present Perfect; Past Simple v Present Perfect; For or Since; Duration; The Future; Going to; Present forms for future; Will or going to?; Conditionals; Modals; The -ing form; Prepositions; Word order; Passive; Imperative; Question tags; Have something done; Non-defining clauses; A/The; Conjunctions; etc

ESL Independent Study Lab: Grammar

A links collection (similar to this page) organized by level (level 100, level 200. level 300); it's well annotated and includes some user reviews

UVic Study Center: Grammar

Interactive reading with comprehension, summarizing, and gap-filling activities.

Basic

CLTA Flash Zone

Gender; Relative Pronouns; Simple Present; Present Continuous; Simple Past; Adjectives; Plural Nouns; More Plural Nouns; Noun Verb Agreement; Negative To Be; There Is There Are; Good & Well; Irregular Verbs; Pronouns; Past To Be; Do Or Does Indefinite Article ; One Or Ones; Adverbs; Adjective Or Adverb; There Is Are; Days, Holidays & Seasons

CLTA Shocked Grammar

Simple Present; t, D, Ed Sounds; Simple Past; Negative To Be; Present Continuous; An Or A; Present Perfect; s Or Z Sounds; Past To Be; There Is Or Are; Noun Verb Agreement; Good & Well; There Is Are; Relative Pronouns; One Or Ones; Pronouns; Adverbs; Do Or Does; Some Or Any; Adjective Or Adverb; Plural Nouns; Superlative Or Comparative; More Plural Nouns; Superlative; Even More Plural Nouns; Comparative; Plural Of o, Y & F; Ordinal Numbers; Who Which

Dave's ESL Quiz Page (grammar) (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

Verb tense; Prepositions; Modals, et cetera...from the ESL Cafe

English Tests from englishlearner.com (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

Interactive grammar, reading, and vocabulary

Grammar Central CLTA

Contractions; Regular Past Verbs; Person; Irregular Verbs 1 A-b; Pronoun; Irregular Verbs 2 C-e; Noun Or Pronoun; Irregular Verbs 3 F-h; Noun Or Verb; Irregular Verbs 4 K-m; Verb "To Be"; Irregular Verbs 5 P-s; Negative Of Verb "To Be"; Irregular Verbs 6 S-s; To Have ; Irregular Verbs 7 T-z; To Have Negative; Confusing Words 1; (Plurals )Number ; Confusing Words 2; Plurals More ; Opposites 1; Plurals Irregular- o; Articles-1; Plurals Irregular- f = Ves; Question Forms There Is/Are; Plurals Really Irregular; Object Pronouns; Plurals Borrowed; Possessive Adjectives Plurals - No Singular Form; Past Of Verb "To Be"; Question Form "To Be"; Past Negative "To Be"; Simple Present Tense; Past Of "To Have"; Question Form Present; There Is, There Are; Simple Future Tense; Negative There Is/Are

Mind Your Grammar (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

"A self-access course in English Grammar for university and college students" includes reference (above) and exercise materials

Self-Study Grammar Quizzes (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

Collected by Internet TESL Journal: Articles; Cloze; Conjunctions; Dialogs; Plurals; Prepositions; Pronouns; Sentence Structure; Tag Questions; Verbs; Correct Sequence; Word Choice; Other Quizzes.

Super Quiz Machine for ESL Students (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

"Get a new set of randomly-chosen questions each time you visit the page." (thousands of questions!)

Verb Tense Introduction

Thirteen problem areas, each with an explanation pages and a quiz page (check answers to the quiz pages at the quiz answers pages).

Intermediate

Better English-Grammar

Verb tense (present; past simple; present perfect; future); Conditional forms; Modals; Miscellaneous (passive, word order; a/the, etc); also a section on phrasal (multi-word) verbs

Dave's ESL Quiz Page (grammar) (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

Verb tense; Prepositions; Modals, et cetera...from the ESL Cafe

Dr Richard Doneskey's writing review pages (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)

Each page includes grammar explanation plus a series of problems; think about the problem and then see the correct solution. Topics: Active, Passive, and Linking Sentences; Articles; Apostrophes; Fragments; Paragraph development; Past Participles; Pronoun-antecedent agreement problems; Pronoun problems with "this" and "that"; Run-together sentences and comma splices; Sexist language; Subject-Verb agreement; Tense Shifts; Transitions

English Tests from englishlearner.com (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

Interactive grammar, reading, and vocabulary

English Zone Grammar Practice

Articles; Comparatives; Nouns; Pronouns; Adjectives; Conditionals; Questions; Quantifiers; Agreement; Clauses; etc.

Interactive English Language Exercises

Small collection of quizzes for verb tense grammar, phrasal verbs, et cetera

Interactive Quizzes (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)

A large collection of activities which accompany the Guide To Sentence-Level Grammar: includes activities on sentence structure; word forms (adverbs, adjectives, etc); verb tense, form, and agreement; clause structure; sentence structure; punctuation; spelling; et cetera

Mind Your Grammar (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

"A self-access course in English Grammar for university and college students" includes reference (above) and exercise materials

Self-Study Grammar Quizzes (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

Collected by Internet TESL Journal: Articles; Cloze; Conjunctions; Dialogs; Plurals; Prepositions; Pronouns; Sentence Structure; Tag Questions; Verbs; Correct Sequence; Word Choice; Other Quizzes.

Sentence construction

Sentences have a business orientation

Super Quiz Machine for ESL Students (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)

"Get a new set of randomly-chosen questions each time you visit the page." (thousands of questions!)

Advanced

Analysis of Academic English

Challenging exercises on some common areas of usage difficulty; based on University of Hong Kong's concordance work.

CNN Newsroom Grammar Activities

Based on stories in the news: Actives vs. Passives; Articles / Determiners; Clauses: Noun, Relative, Subordinate; Conditionals; Connectors; Infinitives / Past and Present Participles; Direct / Indirect Speech; Modals & Auxiliaries; Passivity; Prepositions; Singular / Plurals; Tag Questions; Verb Forms; Verb Phrases; Verb Tenses; Word Forms; Word Order

Dr Richard Doneskey's writing review pages (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)

Each page includes grammar explanation plus a series of problems; think about the problem and then see the correct solution. Topics: Active, Passive, and Linking Sentences; Articles; Apostrophes; Fragments; Paragraph development; Past Participles; Pronoun-antecedent agreement problems; Pronoun problems with "this" and "that"; Run-together sentences and comma splices; Sexist language; Subject-Verb agreement; Tense Shifts; Transitions

Grammar Bytes

Comma Splices and Fused Sentences...Exercise 1: Distinguishing Between Comma Splices and Fused Sentences; Exercise 2: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences; Exercise 3: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences; Exercise 4: Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences; Exercise 5: Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Verb Tense...Exercise 1: Choosing Appropriate Irregular Verb Forms New!; Exercise 2: Choosing Appropriate Irregular Verb Forms New!; Exercise 3: Choosing Appropriate Irregular Verb Forms; Exercise 4: Choosing Appropriate Irregular Verb Forms; Exercise 5: Avoiding Common Tense Misspellings; Exercise 6: Using Lay and Lie Correctly New!

Grammar Safari

'Hunt' real-world examples of target grammatical structures on the Web; decide if real-world usage follows the rules of grammar as you understand them.

Interactive Quizzes (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)

A large collection of activities which accompany the Guide To Sentence-Level Grammar: includes activities on sentence structure; word forms (adverbs, adjectives, etc); verb tense, form, and agreement; clause structure; sentence structure; punctuation; spelling; et cetera

CobuildDirect Corpus & Collocation Sampler

A fast and useful grammar reference displays the word or phrase you look up as it is used in real-world context (Corpus) and with a listing of frequently uses with the target word (Collocation); an excellent tool for the study of both meaning and usage. For a similar tool, try Web Concordancer (English)

Guide To Sentence-Level and Paragraph-Level Grammar

An excellent resource for basis sentence-level grammar, including clause structure, subject-verb agreement, and common problems such as run-ons; includes a large collection of exercises

The University of Victoria Writer's Guide

An excellent online reference to essay/paragraph/sentence-level grammar

Elementary Grammar

A reference text with notes on common usage problems (UK)

HyperGrammar

A grammar reference/course with key concepts linked to other items

Internet Grammar of English

Index of a searchable grammar reference; many articles have supplementary exercise; click HERE for introductory instructions

On-Line English Grammar

An electronic reference text from Edu-Net, including notes on form and usage as well as a Grammar Clinic with answers your questions about English grammar; select their Subject Index for a listing of points covered (UK)

Gender-free pronouns FAQ

'General & Specific Discussion of Gender-Free Alternatives to Gendered Pronouns'

The alt.usage.english FAQ file

A collection of information on difficult qiuestions of English usage.

Articles

Using and omitting the indefinite article 'a' / 'an'; using and omitting the definite article 'the' -- Monash University

Articles: 'a' 'an' and 'the'

Usage notes

Articles: Definite Article or NO Article

rules, examples, and exercises

Grammar Tips

Short 'handouts' on proofreading, punctuation, and usage from Bowling Green (Ohio) State University

Nouns

Meaning and usage notes together with several self-correcting quizzes.

Passive voice

When/why to use passive; recognizing passives; active/passive contrast; forming passives -- Monash University

Subject/Verb agreement

Challenge: identify the head (main) noun

Verb Tenses

present simple and present continuous; present perfect; past perfect -- Monash University

Dave's ESL Question Page

Questions about grammar (and other ESL topics) asked and answered

English Grammar Clinic

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) and a search engine

FAQ of English Grammar

FAQ = 'Frequently Asked Questions' from the Usenet newsgroup 'alt.usage.english', an on-line discussion of points of grammar

Grammar and Style Guides for Writers

A list like this, from Ohio State University (US)

Sounds English: Grammar

Freeware and shareware Macintosh Software for English Language Learners/Teachers

alt.usage.english

An on-line discussion of points of grammar