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Practice exercises to learn grammar

Grammar Practice

Here at learnenglish.britishcouncil.org there are at least 149 grammatical exercises for you to practice. Click on the other websites to see lists of the exercise available there.

Level Guide:

Beginners Intermediate Advanced Explaination

Articles:

definite article: the
indefinite article: a and an
Articles 1
Articles 2

Adjectives:

Adjectives (gradable / non-gradable)
Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing
Adjectives
adjectives: -ed and -ing
adjective phrases
intensifiers
mitigators
noun modifiers
order of adjectives

Adverbs:

Just, yet, still, already
already, still, yet and no longer
comparative adverbs
verb patterns - adverbials
adverbial phrases
Adverbials
adverbials of direction
adverbials of distance
adverbials of location
adverbials of place
adverbials of probability
adverbials of time
adverbs of manner
how we make adverbials
superlative adverbs

Comparative Superlative:

As and Like
comparative and superlative adjectives

Demonstratives:

this, that, these and those

Nouns:

Nouns
possessives: nouns
proper nouns

Countable Uncountable:

count nouns
uncount nouns
Countable and Uncountable nouns 1
Countable and Uncountable nouns 2
common problems with count/uncount nouns

Present Simple:

the verb be
present simple
present tense
talking about the present

Present Continuous:

present continuous

Pronouns:

personal pronouns
Pronouns
indefinite pronouns
it and there
possessive pronouns (see possessives:- pronouns)
Possessives
possessives: adjectives
possessives: pronouns
Question forms and subject/object questions
Reflexive pronouns
possessives: reciprocal pronouns
you and they
one and ones
reciprocal pronouns: each other and one another
reflexive pronouns

Quantifiers:

Enough
Determiners and quantifiers
quantifiers

General:

clause structure
Clause, phrase and sentence
clauses: short forms
English Grammar
perfective aspect
reflexive and ergative verbs

Future:

Future continuous and Future perfect
Future Plans
Predicting the Future
talking about the future

Past Simple:

Past habit - used to/would/past simple
used to + infinitive and be/get used to
irregular verbs
past simple
past tense
talking about the past

Past Continuous:

Past Continuous and Past Simple
past continuous

Present Perfect:

Present Perfect
present perfect

Perfect Continuous:

Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous

Prepositions:

Adjectives and Prepositions
time and dates
prepositional phrases

Questions:

how long
how often
question forms
questions
interrogative determiners: which and what

Question Tags:

Question tags

Verbs:

Stative verbs
double object verbs
intransitive verbs
Verbs
continuous aspect
delexical verbs like have, take, make and give
double object verbs
verbs followed by that clause

Conjunctions:

in spite of / despite / although
So

Conditionals:

Conditionals 1
Conditionals 2
Wish and If only
verbs in time clauses and if clauses
wishes and hypotheses

Modals:

Modals 1
Modals deduction (present)
Modals deduction past
Past ability and possibility
ability, permission, requests and advice
can or could
can, could and could have
certain, probable or possible
may, might, may have and might have
Modal verbs
modals + have
will have or would have
will or would

Passive:

Passives
active and passive voice

Reported:

Reported questions
Reported speech 1
Reported speech 2
reporting verbs with that, wh- and if clauses
reporting: reports and summaries

Relative:

Relative clauses - non-defining relative clauses
Relative clauses defining relative clauses
possessives: questions
relative clauses
relative pronouns
wh- clauses

Phrasal Verbs:

transitive verbs
verb phrase
verb phrases
two- and three-part verbs

Word Order:

verbs - questions and negatives
verb patterns
sentence structure
where they go in a sentence

Vocabulary:

British English and American English
Multi-word verbs
Participle clauses
Verbs and Prepositions
Words that are often confused
noun Phrase
phrasal verbs

Spelling:

Capital letters and apostrophes