These review items will give you more than 300 questions as a way of reviewing common issues in grammar. Many items provide feedback explaining the correct answer. Most items conform to standard English grammar, but please note that some are peculiar to Associated Press style.

Parts of speech

Phrases, Clauses, Fragments, and Sentence Types

Nouns

Explanations of the most common problems with nouns, with examples. Prepares you for the exercises below on nouns.

Nouns 1 (19 items)

Nouns 2 (24 items)

Pronouns

Introduction to the main problems with pronouns. Contains a long, helpful explanation of who and whom.

Pronouns 1 exercise (19 items)

Pronouns 2 exercise (19 items)

Who and whom exercise (45 items)

Possessives (30 items)

Verbs 1 (13 items)

Verbs 2 (20 items)

Irregular Verbs (70 items)

Passive Voice 1 (17 items)

Passive Voice 2 (17 items)

Subject-Verb Agreement

Practice isolating the subject and verb in many sentences, to learn the basis of subject-verb agreement -- one of the most important aspects of English grammar.

Lay and Lie

Lay and Lie 1 (9 items -- with reference chart of verb forms)

Lay and Lie 2 (10 items)

Lay and Lie 3 (12 items)

Learning Lay and Lie -- The Long Lesson

If you need an extensive review of lay and lie, here it is. This site takes you through each grammatical point you need to understand, practices each point, then gives progressively more difficult exercises to practice your skill.

Subjects, verbs, and pronouns (21 items)

Adjectives

Adjectives and modifiers (16 items)

Adjectives and prepositions (22 items)

Essential and Non-Essential (21 items)

Misplaced Modifiers (16 items)

Redundancy (10 items)

A variety of grammatical items (37 items)

A random sample of 20 questions from the grammar exercises