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Grammar Review

This is not a complete course in grammar, but it will hand you more than 300 questions as a way of reviewing common issues in grammar. Many items provide feedback explaining the correct answer. These exercises were created at various times, so there is some overlap among them.

Most items conform to standard English grammar, but please note that some are peculiar to Associated Press style.

Please provide on errors and on the usefulness of these exercises.


Nouns (19 items)

Pronouns (14 items)


Verbs

Verbs 1 (13 items)

Verbs 2 (20 items)

Passives 1 (17 items)

Passives 2 (17 items)

Lay and Lie

Lay and Lie 1 (9 items)

Lay and Lie 2 (10 items)

Lay and Lie 3 (ferret -- 12 items)

Learning Lay and Lie

If you need an extensive review of lay and lie, here it is. This site takes you through each grammatical point you need to understand, practices each point, then gives progressively more difficult exercises to practice your skill.


Subjects, verbs, and pronouns (21 items)

Adjectives

Adjectives and modifiers (16 items)

Adjectives and prepositions (22 items)


Punctuation

Punctuation (20 items)

The Comma (16 items)


Essential and Non-Essential (21 items)

Misplaced Modifiers (16 items)

Redundancy (10 items)

A variety of grammatical items (37 items)


Grammar All (20 items)

A random sample of 20 questions from the exercises above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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