Learning English with Michelle: Grammar

This page includes grammar instruction and rules, grammar practice activities and grammar quizzes.

The page is divided into sections:

PART 1 : Diagnostic/Assessment Quizzes These will help you determine your level and your strengths and weaknesses

PART 2 Music Videos on Parts of Speech. Native speaking students learned their basic grammar with these videos. They are entertaining and help you remember.

PART 3 includes short videos in which a teacher explains a specific grammar point on a blackboard. Other sections also include video tutorials because they are a useful way to learn and remember.

Part 4: Grammar at the Word Level
includes nouns, verbs, articles, adjectives, gerunds, passives, modals. prepositions

PART 5: COMPOUND SENTENCES
Both types ( and, but, so...) (in addition, however, therefore etc)

PART 6: COMPLEX SENTENCES AND CLAUSES
adverb, adjective and noun clauses, reported speech

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GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT TESTS

The following tests can help you determine how well you know English grammar in a passive way (i.e.how well you recognize correct grammar to use in a multiple choice quiz. It can also help you to decide which areas you are strong or weak in. This will help you to decide which areas you want to practice a lot.

Keep in mind, that grammar is simply a tool - a set of rules that allows us to communicate in reading, writing, speaking and listening. It is not simply a set of exercises or rules we learn for no reason.

The real test of how well you understand English grammar is in the way you actually use it - both in your writing and in your speaking, and how well you really understand it when dealing with complex passages in reading and listening.

Error Identification and Correction ( difficult)

Grammar in Speaking

Grammar Talk

PART 1:
Grammar Tables

Pronoun Table

Table of Irregular Comparatives

Verbs Followed by Gerund and/or Infinitive

List of English Prepositions

PART 2

GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION

Grammar Rock: Music Videos to Teach Part of Speech

The Tale of Mr. Morton: The Subject and the Predicate
A musical introduction to the parts of the sentence and how they work together
School House Rock: VERBS
School House Rock: NOUNS
School House Rock Pronouns
School House Rock: ADJECTIVES
School House Rock: ADVERBS
Grammar Rock Interjections
Grammar Rock Prepositions
Grammar Rock Conjunction Junction
Grammar Rocks Lyrics: All the words to the songs above

Who says grammar can't be fun? Watch this and the next two videos in which different schools learn and perform the preposition dance.

More Musical Grammar:

Online Grammar Textbook

English Grammar

Video Tutorials of Grammar Points

Some people learn better by watching a video and listening to a teacher explain specific points. This section allows you to watch teachers explain specific grammar points on short videos. Most of the videos offer clear, simple explanations. You can play them again and again. When you have understood a grammar point, try reading some of the explanations below, or practice with some of the activities.

Video Lessons from Yossarian the Grammarian

PARTS OF SPEECH:

GRAMMAR AT THE WORD LEVEL

ADJECTIVES:

ADVERBS:

ARTICLES:

CAUSATIVES:

Causatives: Let Make Have Get

DETERMINERS

Determiners are words placed in front of a noun to make it clear what the noun refers to. The word 'people' by itself is a general reference to some group of human beings. If someone says 'these people', we know which group they are talking about, and if they say 'a lot of people' we know how big the group is. 'These' and 'a lot of' are determiners in these sentences.

Overview of all types of determiners ( very complete)\
Articles and Determiners
Basic Quiz on Quantifiers
some, any or none
fewer vs less
27 Determiner Quizzes New
9 Quantifier Quizzes

DIRECT AND INDIRECT OBJECT

Tutorials and Quizzes Direct and Indirect Object

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

Tutorials: Video and Power Point

Practice Gerunds vs Infinitives

MODALS

PAST MODALS QUIZZES

NOUNS:

for more practice, go to DETERMINERS

PHRASAL VERBS:

PRONOUNS:

PREPOSITIONS

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME ( IN ON AT)

Prepositions of Time
Prepositions of Time In On (Video English with Jennifer)
Prepositions of Time: IN ON or AT
Prepositions of Time IN ON AT from English Corner : Rules and (3 quizzes) NEW
Prepositions of Time Practice
Time Exercise 1 (In, On, At)
Time Exercise 2 (In, On, At)
Time Exercise 3 (In, On, At)

EXPRESSIONS OF TIME WITH SINCE, FOR, and IN

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE AND LOCATION (IN ON AT)

PREPOSITIONS : AT vs TO New

PREPOSITION QUIZZES

10 More Preposition Practice Preposition Quizzes
Prepositions often confused
6 Preposition in Academic Writing Quizzes difficult
30 Preposition Quizzes with IN, ON, AT
50 Preposition Quizzes ( both sentence and paragraphs)New
Practice with Prepositions Preposition combinations
Preposition Test (100 questions)
Prepositional Phrase Help
80 Preposition Quizzes from Total English
178 Preposition Quizzes from English Daily New

Prepositions in Paragraphs

QUESTION FORMATION:

How to Ask Questions (video)
WH Questions: Make Questions from the Sentences
Making Questions Source Grammar Goblins
Tag Questions Quiz
Tag Questions Source Grammar Goblins
Video Tutorial on Question Tags
15 Question Tag Quizzes

VERBS:VIDEO TUTORIALS

Video Tutorials from Anglo Link and Perfect English Grammar

STATIVE VERBS: (Verbs that CAN'T be Used in the Continuous Tense)

VERB OVERVIEW
THE BIG PICTURE

Practice with Irregular Verbs

ACTIVE VS PASSIVE VOICE

PASSIVE: QUIZZES and PRACTICE

Passive Verb Forms 1 Past Tense Passive
Passive Verb Forms 2 Present Perfect Passive
Passive Verb Forms 3 Present Tense Passive
Passive Verb Forms 4 Present Progressive Passive
Passive Verb Forms 5 Past Progressive Passive
Passive Verb Forms 6 Passive with Modals
Passive Verb Forms 7 Passive with Modals 2
Passive Verb Forms 8 Passive Infinitive with need(s) to
Active or Passive 1
Active Passive Voice Quiz at the paragraph level
Passives Intermediate
Passives Advanced
41 Exercises on Active/Passive Voice from ENGLISH DAILY

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: VERBS

from Azar Grammar (Understanding and Using English Grammar)

Chapter 1: Overview of Verb Tenses

Chapter 2:Present and Past, Simple and Progressive

Chapter 3: Present and Perfect Progressive Tenses

VERB TENSES

PRESENT TIME FRAME:
Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous

PAST TIME FRAME: PAST TENSES

Simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect progressive

Mixed Past Time Quizzes ( Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect)

PERFECT TENSES

FUTURE TENSE

MIXED VERB TENSE QUIZZES

VERB TENSE CONSISTENCY:

HOW VERB TENSES ARE USED IN COMPLEX SENTENCES

*** Sequence of Tenses ( How Tenses are used in complex sentences)

WORD ORDER

PHRASES, CLAUSES, SENTENCES

VIDEO TUTORIALS:

THE SENTENCE:

SENTENCE TYPES:
Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex
Sentence Types
A Series of Videos on Making Sentences New

PUNCTUATION RULES:

COMMAS

THE SEMI- COLON

NOTE:

For more practice and error correction exercises on ALL aspects of punctuation and capitalization go to the EDITING AND ERROR CORRECTION page.

Showing Relationships between ideas

Introduction to Coordination and Subordination

COORDINATION

COMPOUND SENTENCES 1: FANBOYS

Combining ideas with coordinating conjunctions FOR,AND, NOR, BUT, OR,YET, SO

Parallelism

Keeping ideas parallel after and, but

Compound Sentences 2: Transitions /Adverbial Conjunctions

Combining with Transitions (However, Therefore, Then, In addition

SUBORDINATION:

ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

VIDEO TUTORIALS:

ONLINE TUTORIALS and PRACTICE

Exercises covering the main types of relative( adjective clauses)

Restrictive Relative Clauses - Object-Subject Pattern Matching Exercise - OS Pattern with who, and which.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Object-Subject Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - OS Pattern with who, which and that.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Object-Subject Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - OS Pattern with whose.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Object-Object Pattern Matching Exercise - OO Pattern with who(m), and which.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Object-Object Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - OO Pattern with who, whom, which and that.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Object-Object Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - OO Pattern with whose.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Subject-Subject Pattern Matching Exercise - SS Pattern with who, and which.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Subject-Subject Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - SS Pattern with who, which and that.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Subject-Subject Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - SS Pattern with whose.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Subject-Object Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - SO Pattern with who, whom, which and that.
Restrictive Relative Clauses - Subject-Object Pattern Sentence Combining Exercise - SO Pattern with whose.

MORE ABOUT ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

Answer Key to a large variety of adjective clause quizzes

To practice editing ( error correction) with adjective clauses go to the EDITING AND ERROR CORRECTION PAGE.

Editing Adjective Clauses

ADVERB CLAUSES

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT: GRAMMAR BASED READINGS from Understanding English Grammar, by Betty Azar

VIDEO TUTORIALS:

Adverb Clause: Tutorials and Practices:

Adverb Clauses of Time

Adverb Clauses of Cause/Effect/ Purpose

Adverb Clauses of Unexpected Result

ADVERB CLAUSE QUIZZES

CONNECTING WORDS:

REVIEW ALL CONNECTORS: compound, complex, transitions
( and,but,so/ however/ therefore/ then/ adverb clauses)

CONDITIONALS:

Videos with conditionals: A fun way to learn and see how conditionals are used in the real world.

Benjamin Button and the Third Conditional This video clip from the movie Benjamin Button is full of examples of the third conditional. The first half is what really happened, the second is him imagining what could have happened, beginning with “if only one thing had happened differently.”