L1 Grammar revision of information questions

Wh Questions and words for students and teachers of English grammar

click the line above for an explanation.

L1 Grammar exclamations

You will find here a useful summary of exclamations

L1 Grammar revision of tags

Here is a short exercise on tags.

L1 grammar Echoes

So do I

Click on the heading above for a short, fun exercise on one type of echo.

L1 Thème-grammaire "Indirect questions"

ESL Quiz - Indirect Questions (Vera Mello) I-TESL-J

We saw on Friday that "indirect questions" are not really questions.

Here is an online exercise for you to practice. Try to find the answer, then click on the button to find the correct answer.

This short exercise has only ten questions, about question tags...

Grammar -should have

English Grammar Lessons

Finally (for today) here is some revision on "should have".

Grammar - had better

English Grammar Lessons

The expression "had better" (as in "You'd better be ready by the time I come") also causes some difficulty. Here is an explanation and short grammar exercises.

Grammar - supposed to

English Grammar Lessons

A lot of students have difficulties with the expression "supposed to". Here is a page with some useful short exercises, which includes also other expressions with "suppose".

L1 Grammar Modals Can Be Able to Quiz

Modals Can Be Able to Quiz for ESL EFL English Students

Here is a short quiz on can, could and be able to.
You have to think about your answer, then click on the arrow to find the correct answer.

This is in the area of modality of action.

If you are surprised by the answers, check your grammar book.

L1 Grammar collective nouns gapfill game

collective nouns gapfill typing game english grammar

Here is a short, game-like exercise on collective nouns.

First year grammar revision Reflexive pronouns - Grammar Exercises - Learning English

Reflexive pronouns - Grammar Exercises - Learning English

This exercise is for revision; it shouldn't be difficult.

All students - [bnc] British National Corpus - help with vocabulary and grammar

[bnc] British National Corpus

English is quite complicated at time, and you might not be sure how a particular expression is used. Dictionaries and grammar books help of course, but this link takes you to another site which can help. It is a corpus - a collection of extracts from books, newspapers, magazines, radio interviews etc - in total a hundred million words of real English.

Use the search engine to "search the corpus" to see how expressions are used.

For example if you are not sure whether "comité scientifique" should be "scientific committee" or "scientific board", you can search for each of these expressions and see which one is really used.

Try searching to find the exact meaning in English (if any) of the words "planning" "parking" and "caravaning". You should find that "planning" and "timetable" are not the same thing, and that "a parking" is not English.

L1 Grammar Possessive Pronouns

410 Grammar: Possessive Pronouns

The L1 grammar class I am taking begins on Friday 1st February. Every week you will have in class some explanations of tricky grammar points, and some exercises on paper. But I will also be giving you on the blogs links for you to follow. These are usually exercises to do online.



This first link takes you to a short exercise written by staff at an American University, on possessive pronouns.