Grammar Essentials


    Grammar Reference Sheets

      English Verb Tenses at a Glance

      A List of Irregular English Verbs

    NoNonsense Grammar Topics and Exercises

      p. 7 - Grammar Building Blocks

      p. 7b - Exercise: Grammar Building Blocks

      p. 8 - Forming the Verb Tenses

      p. 9 - TO BE and TO HAVE in the SIMPLE PRESENT and SIMPLE PAST

      p. 10 - Identify the Verb Tenses

      p. 11 - SIMPLE PRESENT

      p. 12 - PRESENT CONTINUOUS

      p. 13 - Simple Present versus Present Continuous: Applications

      p. 14 - Simple Present versus Present Continuous: Examples

      p. 15 - Exercise: Simple Present vs. Present Continuous (1)

      p. 16 - Exercise: Simple Present vs. Present Continuous (2)

      p. 16b - Exercise: Simple Present vs. Present Continuous (3)

      p. 17/18 - Forming Interrogatives and Negatives

      p. 19 - Exercise: Forming Interrogatives and Negatives

      p. 20 - Contractions

      p. 21 - Time and Place Prepositions

      p. 22 - More Prepositions...

      p. 23 - Exercise: Prepositions

      p. 24 - Possessives and Personal Pronouns

      p. 25 - Exercise: Personal Pronouns and Possessives

      p. 26 - Interrogative Pronouns

      p. 27 - Exercise: Interrogative Pronouns

      p. 28 - Forming Plural Nouns

      p. 29 - Countable and Uncountable Nouns

      p. 30 - Plurals / Countable and Uncountable Nouns

      p. 31 - SIMPLE PAST

      p. 32 - Exercise: Simple Past

      p. 33 - Summary of the Basic Spelling Rules

      p. 34 - COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

      p. 35 - Exercise 1: Comparatives and Superlatives

      p. 36 - Exercise 2: Comparatives and Superlatives

      p. 37 - Future Tenses

      p. 38 - Exercise: Future Tenses (Will or Be Going To?)

      p. 39 - Modal Verbs

      p. 40 - Using the Modals

      p. 41 - Exercise: Modal Verbs

      p. 42 - Using the Perfect and Continuous Modals

      p. 42a - Exercise: Perfect and Continuous Modals

      p. 43 - PAST CONTINUOUS

      p. 44 - Exercise: Past Continuous

      p. 45 - PRESENT PERFECT

      p. 46 - SIMPLE PAST vs. PRESENT PERFECT

      p. 47 - Exercise: Past vs Present Perfect

      p. 48 - Exercise: Past vs Present Perfect

      p. 49 - Exercise: Past vs Present Perfect

      p. 50 - Conditional

      p. 51 - Exercise - Conditional

      p. 52 - Exercise - Past Conditional

      p. 53 - Passive Voice

      p. 54 - Exercise - Passive Voice

      p. 55 - Exercise - Passive Voice

      p. 56/57/58 - Reported (Indirect) Speech

      p. 59/60/61 - Gerunds

      p. 61a/61b - Phrasal Verbs

      p. 61c - Exercise - Phrasal Verbs

      p. 62 - Connectors and Punctuation

      p. 63/64 - Coordinating Conjunctions

      p. 65 - Correlative Conjunctions

      p. 66 - Subordinating Conjunctions

      p. 67 - Exercise - Subordinating Conjunctions

      p. 68/69/70 - Conjunctive Adverbs / Relative Pronouns

      p. 71 - Review Exercise - Connectors

    Answer Keys

      NoNonsense Grammar - Answer Keys

    For more grammar exercises, these links may be useful:

    Interactive Grammar Quizzes (Capital Community College) Activities for ESL English Zone
    ESL Blues -- Diagnostic Quizzes and Tests Karin's Quiz Center Grammar quizzes and exercises from 'Taiwan Teacher'


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