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Grammar and ESL Exercises
Summary: A resource that provides links to all of our grammar and ESL exercises.
Grammar and ESL Exercises
As we are working hard to move our content over into our new system, this page serves as a complete listing of all of the exercises available. We have two types of exercises available - interactive (with online choices) and printable exercises (with blanks). All of these links take you to the old OWL site.
Interactive Exercises (Online Practice)
English as a Second Language
- Adjective or Adverb: Exercise 1
- Adjective or Adverb: Exercise 2
- Prepositions of Direction: To, On (to), In (to)
- Prepositions of Location: At, In, On
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
- Accept and Except Practice
- Affect and Effect Practice
- Apostrophes: Exercise 1
- Apostrophes: Exercise 2
- Commas vs. Semicolons: Exercise 1
- Commas vs. Semicolons: Exercise 2
- Commas with Nonessential Elements: Exercise 1
- Commas with Nonessential Elements: Exercise 2
- Commas with Nonessential Elements: Exercise 3
- I/E Spelling Rules: Exercise 1
- I/E Spelling Rules: Exercise 2
- I/E Spelling Rules: Exercise 3
- I/E Spelling Rules: Exercise 4
- Sentence Fragments: Exercise 1
- Using Commas: Exercise 1
- Using Commas: Exercise 2
- Using Commas: Exercise 3
- Using Commas: Exercise 4
- Using Commas: Exercise 5
- Words that Sound Alike: Exercise 1
Printable Exercises (Offline Practice)
- A or An
- Adjective or Adverb
- Apostrophes
- Appositives
- Articles (A/An/The):
- Punctuation Exercise 1
- Commas:
- Commas after Introductions
- Commas Set Off Nonessential Elements:
- Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences
- Exercises for Eliminating Wordiness
- Count and NonCount Nouns Exercises
- Quantity Terms with Count and Noncount Nouns
- Writing Numbers:Exercise
- Practice Exercises in Paraphrasing
- Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
- Prepositions of Direction:To, On (to), In (to)
- Prepositions of Location: At, In, On
- Quotation Marks
- Sentence Fragments
- Spelling: accept/except
- Spelling: i/e rules
- Spelling:Exercises for -ible vs. -able
- Tense Consistency