Grammar &  Mechanics

This area will be worked on during the 2006-2007 school year.  In the meantime please use the following links from the University of Victoria--English Language Study Center.

• Basics

  • Parts of Speech (Introduction & 3 exercises)

• Nouns

  • Regular Plurals of Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Irregular Plurals of Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Count and Non-Count Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • How to Count Non-Count Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Count and Non-Count Nouns (Review) (Introduction & 3 exercises)

• Verbs

  • Tenses:
    • Forming the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Negatives and Questions in the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
    • Forming the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
    • Negatives and Questions in the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Simple Present or Present Continuous? (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Forming the Simple Past Tense (Irregular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
    • Forming the and Using the Past Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
    • Forming the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Using the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
    • Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
    • Present Perfect and Simple Past (Introduction & 5 exercises)
    • The Future with "Will" (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • The Future with "Be Going To" (Introduction & 1 exercise)
    • Four Ways to Talk About the Future (Introduction & 1 exercise)
    • Past Perfect Tense (Introduction and 2 exercises)
    • Stative and Dynamic Verbs (Introduction and 2 exercises)
  • Gerunds and Infinitives:
    • Gerunds (Introduction & 2 exercises)
    • Gerunds and Infinitives (Introduction & 6 exercises)
  • Modals:
    • Modals: "Don't have to" and "Mustn't" (Introduction & 2 exercises)

• Conditionals

  • Zero Conditional (Introduction & 1 exercise)
  • First Conditional (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Second Conditional (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Third Conditional (Introduction & 1 exercise)
  • Which Conditional Should I Use? (1 exercise)

• Causatives

  • Causatives (Introduction and 2 exercises)

• Pronouns

  • Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives (Introduction & 3 exercises)
  • Possessive Pronouns (Review) (1 exercise)
  • Reflexive Pronouns (Introduction & 1 exercise)
  • Impersonal "It" and "There" (Introduction & 2 exercises)

• Adjectives

  • Regular Comparatives and Superlatives (Introduction & 6 exercises)
  • Adjective Order (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Adjective Clauses (Introduction & 3 exercises)
  • Adjective Clauses (Review) (Introduction & 4 puzzles)

• Adverbs

  • Adverbs (Introduction and 2 exercises)
  • Adverb Phrases (Introduction and 2 exercises)
  • Adverb Clauses (Introduction and 1 exercise)

• Articles/Determiners

  • Choosing the Correct Article (Decision Tree)
  • Some and Any (Introduction and 1 exercise)

• Prepositions

  • Basic Prepositions (Introduction & 1 exercise)

• Conjunctions, Transitions and Linking

  • Basic Coordinating Conjunctions (Introduction & 1 exercise)
  • Basic Subordinating Conjunctions (Introduction & 2 exercises)

• Punctuation

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  • Using Commas (Introduction & 2 exercises)
  • Using Colons and Semi-Colons (Introduction and 1 exercise)

• Others

  • Practice Making Basic Questions (14 exercises)