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The
following are websites that offer English online grammar
practice, along with a brief description of what kinds
of exercises are offered.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral/content.htm
This
site boasts the “largest collection of editing
exercises available online”, and provides practice
exercises under the categories of
- Basic
Grammar
- Sentence
Grammar
- Sentence
Style
- Punctuation
- Mechanics
& Spelling
- Word
Choice/Language
- Working
with Sources
- Composing
& Revising
- ESL
In
the different exercise categories, students can take
quizzes, get their scores, and also get an explanation
of why each answer is right/wrong.
Some topics include tips in addition to
exercises. There
is also an option where the student can sign on, do the
exercises, and then the teacher can go in and check
their work. This
site requires a sign-in, but you can just use your name,
or even a fictitious name.
http://www.smic.be/smic5022
When
you get to the site, called “English Exercises
Online”, click on “Activities” on the sidebar to
get to the exercises. This site offers online activities
under the categories of Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading
Comprehension, and Miscellaneous.
Each category has several sub-categories.
Students get immediate feedback on their answers.
In addition to student exercises, the site also
offers handouts and activities for teachers.
http://grammarbook.com
This
site offers explanatory materials on several points of
grammar and punctuation, along with practice exercises
and tests. Students
need a separate piece of paper to write their answers to
the exercises and tests.
Answers are given after they have completed the
whole exercise/test.
http://www.englishpage.com
This
site offers extensive explanations of various topics in
grammar, along with exercises and quizzes.
The site scores student quizzes, but doesn’t
give explanations of the answers.
When you get to the site, choose a topic from the
“EP Menu” on the sidebar.
Topics include
- Prepositions
- Vocabulary
- Verb
tenses
- Conditionals
- Modals
- Irregular
Verbs
Each
topic also offers several sub-topics for the
student to choose.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/literature/grammar
This
site provides different links that lead to web pages
that feature practice exercises in different aspects of
grammar and editing.
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar
This
site is based on a book, Guide to Grammar and Writing.
If offers explanations of various points of
grammar as well as quizzes to test understanding.
The site gives answers to the quizzes, but no
explanations of the answers. Students can choose from topics on the Word & Sentence
Level, Paragraph Level, and Essay & Research Paper
Level.
The
following resources do not contain exercises, but are
good resources for explanations of and information about
various points of grammar, mechanics, and style.
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CommonErrors.html
This
site is essentially an online handbook, based on the
book Grammar and Style: An Editing Checklist.
It doesn’t have any exercises, but gives
explanations and examples for various points of editing
such as sentence fragments, dangling modifiers, omitted
commas, comma splices, parallelism, and many more.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
This
site is essentially an online version of Strunk’s The
Elements of Style.
It doesn’t offer any exercises, but contains
explanations of various rules of usage and principles of
composition.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing
This
site is an online version of the book Guide to
Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch. It offers explanations of topics such as grammar,
punctuation, and word usage.
It gives tips and explanations, but there are no
accompanying exercises.
http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com
This
site is based on The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing.
On the sidebar, you can choose to see
explanations of various elements of writing, such as
Thinking About Writing, Style, Structure, MLA & APA
Style, Mechanics, and more.
There are no exercises to go along with these
explanations.
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