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Grammar Exercises for English Language Learners

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a selection of grammar exercises designed for intermediate-to-advanced English language learners. Quizzes test understanding of verb tenses, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, relative clauses, and more. [Site uses...
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British Council

British Council: Go4 English: Vocabulary and Grammar for Arabic Speakers

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated and animated site is specifically designed for English language learners whose first language is Arabic. Ask-and-Answer online quizzes and games help students understand various aspects of English grammar and vocabulary,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Article Usage

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on English articles (a, an, the); it includes a slide show which defines the two types of articles and provides an exercise choosing the correct article. It also offers 2 YouTube videos: the first defines definite...
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Mark's English School Online: Esl Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
A commendable teacher-created site by an American ESL educator based in Japan. Includes a nice variety of ESL/EFL games for younger students for learning the past tense or verb usage playing basketball, punctuation playing golf, or new...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Did English Evolve?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the evolution of the English language. What is the difference between "a hearty welcome" and "a cordial reception"? In a brief, action-packed history of the English language video, Kate Gardoqui explains why these...
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English to Go: "Chocolate"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover the origin and history of chocolate while practicing reading. Expanding word recognition and usage with a word puzzle to finish off provides a great instant lesson. This is a sample lesson from a subscription site.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Standard English Conventions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
On the SAT Writing & Language Test, you will encounter questions that will ask you to interact with and revise passages in different ways. Standard English Conventions questions ask you to make sentences consistent with standard...
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Exploring English: Colon: Rules for Use

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information regarding four common uses of the colon and its correct usage, along with examples.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Bad or Badly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "bad" and "badly" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
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Using English: English Language Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
Over 200 short self-quizzes for English learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Quizzes span topics including spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: English Only Homonym Quizzes

For Students 3rd - 8th
A vast number of self-study quizzes on homonyms especially designed for English language learners. Using self-scoring drill-and-practice exercises, the Internet TESL Journal helps learners avoid common word-usage errors.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Good or Well

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "good" and "well" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
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World Wide Words/exploring the English Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"World Wide Words is devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. The Words site is organized into sections, each with its own index to help you find your way about."
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
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Using English: Content Analysis Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
How are your English writing skills coming along? This online text analyzer will help you assess word usage, sentence complexity, and other writing features. Copy and paste your text into the box and click to view statistics. This is...
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Grammar: English Basics Worksheets

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Excellent and comprehensive collection of worksheets for students' grammar skills. Includes exercises on complete sentences, analogies, synonyms/antonyms, and more.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
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College Edouard Montpetit: Esl Blues

For Students 9th - 10th
This professor's website has online quizzes for the grammar lessons, including a diagnostic test to help the student assess his or her language level. There are tutorials for grammar lessons on a wide range of topics and explanations of...
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St Online / Japan Times Ell Newspaper

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site for Weekly ST, which the Japan Times publishes to help young audiences learn English. You can read articles, some in English, some in Japanese, and listen to the audio version. The English article comes with online...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Grade 11: Grammar and Usage Test 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A reading selection which provides multiple-choice questions as assessment, testing students' knowledge of the grammar and usage of the English language. Also includes an interactive format which gives students the correct answers for...
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English Plus+

English Plus: Grammar Slammar!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An easy-to-use grammar resource containing rules for style, usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, and letter writing. This site also includes a glossary of common grammatical mistakes.
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Dictionary of the English Language/image

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
See a Close-up image of an original page from Johnson's dictionary. It shows the definition and a usage example for the word "puke."
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Better English Lessons

Learning to Use Multiword Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has interactive quizzes for advanced English language learners that tests knowledge of multiword verb expressions such as "Acting up," and "Airing out." [Site uses British versus American English.]

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