Free English Grammar Tests

English Grammar Tests (by Category)

The Eight Parts of Speech

• The 8-parts-of-speech test
• What are adjectives?
• What are adverbs?
  
• What are conjunctions?
• What are interjections?
• What are nouns?
• What are prepositions?
• What are pronouns?
• What are verbs?

Parts of Speech in Detail

• New!  Past participles test
• New!  Present participles test

• Verb tenses test
• Grammatical terms test
• A test on pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs
• A test on abstract nouns, compound nouns, collective nouns, and gerunds
• A dynamic test on adjectives
• A dynamic test on prepositions
• A test on abstract nouns and concrete nouns

Punctuation

• Apostrophes test (Key Stage 2 style)
• Apostrophes test (multiple choice)
• Apostrophes in time expressions (e.g. 2 years' pay)


• Commas test (Key Stage 2 style)
• Commas test (a timed test)


• Hyphens test (Key Stage 2 style)


• Semicolons test (Key Stage 2 style)


• Punctuation test (general use of punctuation)
• Quirks with parenthesis
• Test your use of quotation marks

Grammar Terms and Definitions

• abbreviations test
• absolute possessive pronouns test
• abstract nouns test
• acronyms test
• accusative case test
• adjectives test
• adverbs test
• affix test
• apostrophes test
• apostrophes showing possession test
• articles test
• collective nouns test
• compound adjectives test
• compound nouns test
• concrete nouns test
• conjunctive adverbs test
• coordinate conjunctions test
• definite articles test
• demonstrative adjectives test
• demonstrative pronouns test
• direct objects test
• enumeration of adjectives test
• future perfect progressive tense test
• future progressive tense test
• gender-specific nouns test
• indefinite adjectives test
• indefinite articles test
• indefinite pronouns test
• indirect objects test
• interrogative adjectives test
• interrogative pronouns test
• non-countable nouns test
• object of a preposition test
• past participles test
• present participles test
• past perfect tense test
• past perfect progressive tense test
• past progressive tense test
• plurals test
• possessive adjectives test
• possessive case test
• present perfect tense test
• present perfect progressive tense test
• present progressive tense test
• progressive tenses test
• proper nouns test
• simple future tense test
• simple past tense test
• simple present tense test
• simple tenses test

Easily Confused Words

• The main easily confused words test
• 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

Useful grammar tests

• An and a
• Capital letters
• Quirks with abbreviations
• Too and to
• Who and whom
• Either/or and neither/nor
• Writing numbers
• All, all of, alright, and all right