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Tutoring ESL Students: Grammar Exercises

These grammar exercises are meant to complement error gravity research.

Directions: Click on the links below to access a document or link containing each type of grammar problem. You may wish to download and print these exercises off for yourself or for ESL students. You may also wish to go through these exercises with students to help them better understand the rules behind the grammar problem(s) that they are having.

Grammar Exercise 1: Word Order	Grammar Exercise 2: Verb Tense or Missing Verb
Grammar Exercise 3: Relative Clause	Grammar Exercise 4: Word Choice
Grammar Exercise 5: Subject-Verb Agreement	Grammar Exercise 6: Pronoun Agreement
Grammar Exercise 7: Preposition	Grammar Exercise 8: Spelling
Grammar Exercise 9: Comma Splice	Grammar Exercise 10: Article

For more grammar exercises, please click on the links below:

Dave's ESL Cafe: This is a popular ESL site that features interactive grammar exercises.

English Learning Club: This site focuses its grammar around the parts of speech in English.

OWL Purdue Wriitng Center: Purdue's Writing Lab also features grammar exercises designed for ESL students.

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