Grammar

Grammar Sources for Students Learning English

It can be difficult to find good explanations of grammar rules in English. Here are some that I have found to be the most clear. However, at times it helps to compare a number of different websites in order to combine different examples.

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Grammar Concept	Useful Websites	Best For
Simple Present Tense	http://www.grammar.cl/Present/Simple.htm	Examples of when to use simple present, conjugation and changes in spelling, short answers to questions using do and does
	http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepresentforms.html	Examples with negatives, questions, modal verbs, to be, to have, and words that require -es in third-person singular

Simple Past Tense	http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html	Examples of when to use the simple past, and examples of how to order clauses and adverbs
	http://www.grammar.cl/Past/Irregular_Verbs_List.htm	List of irregular verbs in the simple past and past participle

Future Tense	http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/future.htm	Explanation for stating predictions, intentions, arrangements, and scheduled events using will, going to, and other phrases

Conditional Tense	http://linguapress.com/grammar/conditionals.htm	Good explanations of multiple types of conditional sentences

Continuous/Progressive Tenses	http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/present_progressive_form.htm http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar_list/zeitformen.htm	Broken down formula for present continuous, and in the second website, links about other tenses

Perfect Tenses	http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-use.html http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/verb-tenses.html	Situations for using present perfect, and in the second website, links to pages about other tenses

Active and Passive Voice	http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx	Examples of correct active and passive voice usage in sentences
	http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-voice.htm	Simplified, broken down formula for changing between active and passive

Other grammatical issues	http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/	Guideline for writing and formatting many other parts of a sentence: numbers, adjectives and adverbs, articles, prepositions, pronouns, subject/verb agreement, etc.

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