The English Grammar Exercise Page

Use these English grammar exercises to help you with your grammar and diagramming skills.

You'll find sentences to diagram and an answer key to check your work when you are finished. (No peeking until you're done!) I suggest going through these exercises in order. They start with easy concepts and gradually get more difficult.

For only $12.00, you can get all of these English grammar exercises as a 70 page PDF download. You'll have them right on your computer, and you can easily print them off for yourself or your students.

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• Chapter 1: Basic Sentence Diagramming: Learn how to diagram subjects and verbs. You'll also learn how to diagram questions.

• Chapter 2: Modifiers (Adjectives & Adverbs): Adjectives and adverbs add color and description to our language. Here, you'll learn how to diagram them.

• Chapter 3: Prepositional Phrases: These little guys are hiding in just about every sentence that we read or write!

• Chapter 4: Coordinating Conjunctions: Conjunctions glue things together. Coordinating conjunctions join two independent clauses. It will be easy to see that when you learn how they are diagrammed.

• Chapter 5: Interjections: Yippee! Interjections are awesome! They are not grammatically related to the rest of the sentences, which is why they are set apart from the sentence in the diagram.

• Chapter 6: Types of Verbs - Part 1: Ahhh, verbs... Learn about transitive active verbs and their sidekicks: direct objects and indirect objects.

• Chapter 7: Types of Verbs - Part 2: It's time to learn about transitive passive verbs and intransitive linking verbs.

• Chapter 8: Subordinating Conjunctions: Subordinating conjunctions join an independent clause and a dependent clause. You'll be able to see which is independent and dependent in a sentence diagram.

• Chapter 9: Relative Pronouns: These things are pretty popular. They introduce adjective clauses and they refer to another word in the sentence.

• Chapter 10: Verbals: Verbals are nouns, adjectives, and adverbs that dress up like verbs. It's as if they are being verbs for Halloween. They look like verbs, but they are really not verbs.

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