University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook
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
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Periods
An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abbreviations
A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Progressive Form of Verbs
Information and examples of progressive, stative, and dynamic verb usage in the English language.
University College London
University College London: Survey of English Usage: Verbs Tense & Aspect
This site has information on the tense and aspect of verbs. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn Free Grammar and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn about grammar while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are five different levels of play. L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Relative Pronouns and Adjectives: Review
An excellent review of relative pronouns and adjectives in Spanish. Ample examples in Spanish and English illustrate their usage. Students may test their mastery of this principle with a quiz that follows the lesson.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Grammar Topics
A large collection of concise explanations of various aspects of English grammar and usage. All topics include exercises that can be done, checked, and corrected online. Solid resource for English language learners at the intermediate...
University College London
University College London: Noun Overview and Rules
Overview of nouns and rules for use. Contains information on forming plurals, count and noncount, pronouns, numerals as nouns, and gender. Exercises interspersed in material.
Other
Grammar: English Basics Worksheets
Excellent and comprehensive collection of worksheets for students' grammar skills. Includes exercises on complete sentences, analogies, synonyms/antonyms, and more.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Grade 11: Grammar and Usage Test 1
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...
British Council
British Council: Go4 English: Vocabulary and Grammar for Arabic Speakers
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,...
Better English Lessons
Grammar Exercises for English Language Learners
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...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Parentheses and Rules for Use
This site contains information regarding the correct usage of parentheses in original material and in quoted material. Examples are included for all points discussed.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Criteria, Media, and Memorandums
Do you know when to use "criteria" and when to use "criterion?" What about "media" and "medium?" The correct singular and plural usage of these words can cause confusion. This site gives a good explanation of how to use these words...
University College London
University College London: Adjectives and Nouns
This University College London site explains how to tell whether a word in the adjective position is an adjective or part of the noun. Includes follow-up exercise.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes Difficult
These tests developed for English language learners by ELL teachers feature self-scoring quizzes that emphasize word choice, word usage, punctuation, and similar aspects related to the mechanics of language.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Reference
Site provides links to a wide variety of reference tools, including encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, quotation books, and guides to English usage. L.11-12.1b Usage issues
University College London
University College London: Subject and Predicate
The Survey of English Usage provides explanations and examples for the subject and the predicate.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Bad or Badly
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "bad" and "badly" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)
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...