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English grammar tests

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The Eight Parts of Speech

What are adjectives?
What are adverbs?
What are conjunctions?
What are interjections?
What are nouns?
What are prepositions?
What are pronouns?
What are verbs?

Punctuation

Test your knowledge of apostrophes
Do you know how to use commas?
Quirks with parenthesis
Test your use of quotation marks

Useful grammar tests

When to use 'an' and when to use 'a'
When to use capital letters
Quirks with abbreviations
Using 'too' and 'to'
'Who' and 'whom'
'Either/or' and 'neither/nor'
Writing numbers
'All', 'All of', 'Alright' and 'All right'

Easily Confused Words

accept except
advice advise
affect effect
allowed aloud
allude elude
alot a lot allot
already all ready
altar alter
amount quantity number
appraise apprise
bare bear
being been
beside besides
breathe breath
can may
canvas canvass
cite sight site
coarse course
complement compliment
comprise compose
council counsel
decent descent dissent
dependant dependent
desert dessert
disinterested uninterested
eg ie
elicit illicit
envelop envelope
fewer less
forth fourth
getaway get away
grisly grizzly
historic historical
If and whether
incite insight
Its its
lay lie
lead led
licence license
loath loathe
loose lose
past passed
plain plane
pore pour poor
practice practise
precede proceed
principal principle
raise rise raze
role roll

stationary stationery
storey story
than then
that which who
there their they're
too to
vain vein vane
waist waste
weather whether wether
who's whose
you're your

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Glossary of grammatical terms
Common errors and FAQs about grammar
Easily confused words

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