English Grammar

This is an excellent reference tool for older, beginning and intermediate students of syntax and parts of speech.  For me, learning and remembering the names of the parts of speech was the most difficult part of learning to parse sentences.  (Why does so much associated with grammar begin with the letter "p," for example?)  The layout here is a good way to build the mental territory that is traditional grammar.

The information is that which might be found in most secondary or college level handbooks, but the hypertext format makes it easy to investigate terminology or jog one's memory about what exactly an "adverbial clause" might be.

Clicking on a link displays a page and opens a menu on the left side of the screen.  Oddly there is no linkage between pages within a given catagory; they must be chosen from the menu on the left. 

Exercises hyperlink choices to correct answers, from which the student must hit the back button to return to the test proper. 

This is a good site for beginners or for those who are rusty on parts of speech.  (I was led here by another's trail marker on the "Grammar Practice Exercises."  Thank you rbertalan:))

The exercises are simple, straightforward and of the drill type that most of us can use from time to time.

On a recent trip to Sri Lanka I purchased two English grammar books written for Indian and Sri Lankan students.  Learning the grammar of English can be daunting for even a native speaker.  Remembering that the meta-language of syntax and parts of speech is, in many ways, a new language, a technical language, can help both the teacher and student have patience.

ESL sites are useful for native speakers of English if only because it's reassuring to know that people who can't even speak the language are learning the same things.  I don't know why exactly, but ESLgrammar lessons are often much more immediately applicable to me. 

This sight has practical, straightforward examples of parts of speech, as well as good, solid exercises in grammar.  It says that there are drills that can be downloaded as well, though I'm having problems with my Adobe Reader at the moment and so I cannot access currently access them.

HOORAYHOORAYHOORAY!

Not only does this have as exaustive a list of verb tenses as I have seen, it has the various names these tenses are called, a quick explanation, signal words.  AND IT'S ALL PRINTABLE!

I'm too happy with this.