Grammar Monster

Free English Grammar Lessons and Tests

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We have over 2,000 lessons, covering everything from advanced tips for business writers to interactive games for English learners. The site is packed with learning and teaching resources, including step-by-step lessons with confirmatory tests, videos, printable word lists, and shareable homework tasks.

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What Do You Want?

Are you training for your black belt in grammar? Are you teaching new learners? Here are 10 sample lessons at different levels of requirement. Remember that these are just samples. We have thousands of free lessons, tests, and videos.

I'm a native speaker.
I am new to grammatical terms.

1. "The Parts of speech" (video) 2. "Warm up" lesson on adjectives 3. Full lesson on nouns 4. Subjects 5. "Warm up" lesson on verbs 6. Introduction to verb conjugation 7. Introduction to grammatical "number" 8. Full lesson on phrases 9. Introduction to sentence types 10. Full lesson on the "parts of speech"

I'm a native speaker.
I want to take my grammar to an advanced level.

1. Misplaced modifiers 2. Restrictive modifiers 3. Parenthetical punctuation 4. Compound predicates 5. Complements 6. Zeugma 7. Conjunctive adverbs 8. Singular "they" (video) 9. Ending sentences with prepositions (the nuances) 10. Apostrophes for joint ownership

I'm a student.
I want to improve my writing skills.

1. The run-on sentence (a killer lesson!) 2. Verbs of attribution (for referencing) 3. Using "however" properly 4. Most common punctuation errors 5. Hyphens in compound adjectives 6. Commas before "which," "that," and "who" 7. Apostrophes in time expressions 8. Square brackets in quotations 9. Commas with fronted adverbials 10. Commas before conjunctions (and, but, or, etc.)

I'm a business person.
I want to sharpen my writing.

1. Writing parallel lists (important lesson!) 2. Selecting the right words (i.e., diction) 3. Avoiding the run-on sentence (a common error) 4. Using "however" properly 5. Using hyphens in compound adjectives 6. Understanding subject-verb agreement 7. Using commas before "which," "that," and "who" 8. Using commas before conjunctions (e.g., "and") 9. Saving words with participle phrases 10. Explaining through analogies

I'm a creative writer.
I want to generate some flair.

1. Anastrophe (playing with word order) 2. Metonyms (using associated words) 3. Emotive language (being judge and jury) 4. Assonance (adding flair with vowels) 5. Consonance (adding flair with consonants) 6. Anaphora (repeating deliberately) 7. Zeugma (playing with sentence structure) 8. Ethos (writing to influence) 9. Point of view (writing to engage) 10. Analogies (painting pictures with words)

I'm a tutor of absolute beginners.

1. Useful vocabulary by category (lessons & games) 2. "Telling the time" (interactive lesson) 3. "Counting in English" (lesson & game) 4. "Introducing yourself" (role-play lesson) 5. "Talking about your family" (role-play lesson) 6. "Colours" (games & flashcards) 7. "Frequency adverbs" (games & flashcards) 8. "Ordinals & fractions" (games & flashcards) 9. "Shapes" (video) 10. "English for beginners" (list of resources)

I'm a tutor.
I need word games and grammar tests.

1. Match the pairs (for the "parts of speech") 2. "Look-cover-write-check" (for spelling) 3. "Word Builder" (for vocabulary) 4. "Word Up" (for advanced vocabulary) 5. "HangMan" (for vocabulary) 6. 1,000 useful words (drag-and-drop game) 7. "Fish" game (for identifying adverbs) 8. "Bubble pop" game (for identifying prepositions) 9. Match-the-pairs game (for identifying pronouns) 10. Insert-the-punctuation test (for all punctuation)

I'm learning another language.
I need to know more words.

1. 1,000 useful Spanish words. 2. 1,000 useful Spanish words (drag & drop) 3. Counting in Spanish 4. Telling the time in Spanish 5. 1,000 useful French words 6. Counting in French 7. 1,000 useful German words 8. Counting in German 9. 1,000 useful Italian words 10. Introduction to the Arabic alphabet

I want to create my own curriculum.

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Advanced Learners or Teachers

Glossaries for Advanced Learners
Popular Lessons for Advanced Learners

Beginners or Kids

Vocabulary Lessons for Beginners or Kids
Spelling Lessons for Beginners or Kids
Grammar Lessons for Beginners or Kids

Games, Tests, and More

List of Tests and Games
Miscellaneous Lists
Multi-choice Test

Glossaries for Advanced Learners

A-Z Grammar Terms

(278 terms)

A-Z Confused Words

(227 pairs)

Common Errors

(73 errors)

Punctuation Lessons

(33 lessons)

A-Z Unusual Plurals

(151 plurals)

A-Z Common Idioms

(222 idioms)

FAQs by writers

(160 questions)

Grammar Tests and Games

(137 games)

Popular Lessons for Advanced Learners

Word Lists

top 10
irregular verbs

top 10
regular verbs

100
most common verbs

Vocabulary Lessons for Beginners or Kids

vocabulary categories

(83 categories)

important words

(1500+ categorized words)

role-play scenarios

(14 scenarios)

Spelling Lessons for Beginners or Kids

top 10
spelling rules

how to improve
your spelling

top 20
misspellings

stress placement
in English words

Grammar Lessons for Beginners or Kids

prepositions
for kids

pronouns
for kids

conjunctions
for kids

List of Tests and Games

speed test
(multi-discipline)

memory test
(with grammar angle)

Tetris test
(confused words)

Miscellaneous Lists

A-Z Irregular Verbs

Tattoo Fails

Collective Nouns for Animals

Latin Terms

Library of Video Lessons

favo(u)rite-word lists

Paper-Free Learning

All of our lessons have confirmatory tests, which are editable and, if necessary, printable.

To save paper, you can download most of the tests as Word documents for email attachments or present them as slide shows for the classroom. You can even send most of the tests using messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Google Classroom, and Messenger.