Grammar and ESL

Grammar Links to Wisdom and Exercises

• Teach Now: Lots of interactive grammar exercises
• Grammar Bytes: Some useful exercises, including quizzes about comma use
• Online Grammar Exercises: A collection of exercises for a variety of grammar issues
• Guide to Grammar and Writing: A useful site with explanations of grammar issues. From Capital Community College.
• Gary Olsen's Punctuation Made Simple: Demystifying punctuation.
• Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists: Grammar help specifically designed for writers in these fields

UWC Grammar Handouts

• Avoiding Sexist Language
• Bare Minimum Grammar
• Dashes and Parentheses
• Five Uncommonly Serious Mistakes
• Five Easy Comma Rules
• How to Choose Articles
• The Known-New Contract
• Improving Coherence with Known-New Contract
• Mastering Prepositions
• The Paramedic Method
• Passive Voice Q&A
• Punctuation Hierarchies and Sentence Patterns
• Redundant Phrases and Similar Words
• The Semi-Colon: Making Connections
• More handouts

ESL

• ESL Partyland: A site for conversation starters and exercises
• OWL at Purdue: Great ESL--and many other--online handouts
• Grammar Quizzes: Part of The Internet TESL Journal's Activities for ESL Students.
• English as a Second Language: A great site with hundreds of ESL links to speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities and exercises. Also includes ESL games, lesson plans, and jobs.