Grammar Lessons and Grammar Tutorials

ESL Games: Interactive grammar activities by levels.

English Grammar: Grammar Lessons, Exercises, and Rules for Everyday Use

English Lessons Online: Online English Lessons

The Blue Book of Grammar: A Grammar guide with Grammar Rules, Punctuation Rules, Capitalization Rules, Commonly Confused Words, Rules for Writing Numbers, Free Interactive English Quizzes, Grammar and Punctuation Videos

Elements of Style by William Strunk: A complete grammar guide; Essential Rules of Usage; Principles of Composition; Words and Expressions Commonly Misused; Words Commonly Misspelled

Grammar Blast: Interactive Quizzes listed by grade level: grades 2 - 5

Grammar Handbook: Explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.

Grammar Slammer: Online textbook explaining all the elements of grammar

WritingDen: Valuable and easy to use writing reference that allows students to look up grammar rules, helper words, and other writing tips by selecting from he headings: Sentences, Paragraphs, Essays. Better than having a text book because it is easier to find a given topic .

Polish My Writing: A free automated proofreader that checks for grammatical errors and more. Paste or compose a document into their form . Click Check Writing to get feedback on your writing. Click an underlined spelling error, grammar suggestion, or style suggestion to see more options.

Language Tool: An Open Source proof­reading program for English, French, German, Polish, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect and several grammar problems.

VirtualWritingTutor A free grammar checker that checks your English spelling, punctuation and grammar using this free online grammar checker. Paste your text in the box , click 'Check spelling' and then 'Check grammar' to see corrections and links to ESL practice activities.

*The English language consists of eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections.

*A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea

*Verbs carries the idea of being or action in the sentence.

*A pronoun can replace the name of a person, place or thing in a sentence.

*Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

An article is a type of adjective that always gives more information about a particular noun'

*A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

*A conjunction is a joiner (a word that connects parts of a sentence).

*An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.\

*There are fourteen marks of punctuation in the English language: period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis, apostrophe, quotation marks, slash

*In the English language, a sentence is a group of words with four characteristics: All sentences begin with a capital letter; All sentences end with a period or an exclamation point or a question mark; A sentence contains at least one clause; All sentences follow a standard word order.

*Sentences have two parts: the subject and the predicate.

*A run-on sentence has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself, but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected.

*An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form.

*A contraction is the shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of internal letters.

*There are many rules of capitalization and rules of punctuation.

*There are over 100 words most commonly misspelled words!