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Grammar exercises meant for people studying English grammar.

Table of Contents

Exercises for Videos 1, 2 and 3
Exercises for Video 4: Nouns: Kinds
Exercises for Videos 9 and 10: Adjectives
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs (being updated)
Notes on Verbs

(Subject/Predicate; Phrases and Clauses; Parts of Speech)

  1. In the following sentences separate the Subject and the Predicate. There can be more than one Subject and more than one Predicate for sentences made up from more than one Simple sentence. Give reasons for your answers. We will learn about Simple sentences, Compound sentences and Complex sentences later.
  2. Find phrases and clauses in the following sentences. Give reasons for your answers.
  3. For each word in the following sentences, identify the part of speech it can be classed into for the sentence. Give reasons for your answers.


Quotations for the excecises

  1. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
  2. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.
  3. The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work.
  4. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
  5. Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
  6. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
  7. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
  8. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
  9. All children, except one, grow up.
  10. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
  11. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be heldby anybody else, these pages must show.
  12. My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.
  13. My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
  14. It was a bright cold day in April,...