GRAMMAR links


New Eng File Pre Int
https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint/?cc=global&selLanguage=en&mode=hub

 Mobile phone APPS
GeL:Aims English Grammar - free, using your NCM login

 English Grammar in Use (Murphy, Cambridge) - Intermediate
Articles - a/an/the
A simple summary
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-determiners-the-a-an.htm
Test yourself on determiners (articles, some/any, each/every, possessive adjectives my/our)
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-determiners-quiz.htm
Basic information about articles, some, any etc.
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/how-to-use-a-and-the.html
Modals 
Modals of obligation - a useful summary from Englishclub, including a quiz to test yourself
Past modals - deduction
http://www.profesorrich.com/modal-verbs-3-deduction-speculation-criticism-in-the-past
Relative clauses - explanation and practice
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clauses.html 
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/clause-phrase-and-sentence/verb-patterns/relative-clauses

Participle clauses - explanation and practice
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/participle-clauses.html
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/participle-clauses
 

Used to / be used to / get used to / would do sthg.
Pre Intermediate level - New English File course book, File 7 
https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint/?cc=global&selLanguage=en&mode=hub

Quiz - used to do / be used to (Int+)
NCG Grammar in a Minute videos
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLq8PINX4kJ8Yq8S-k76zJg

EnglishClub 
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/index.htm - Excellent grammar summaries

Perfect English Grammar
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/grammar-exercises.html
Explanations and exercises.

New English File
Use the practice games and tasks from this popular coursebook.
https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en
Transitive and intransitive verbs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv244.shtml 
Phrasal Verbs - useful links
A video explanation, especially helpful if phrasal verbs are new to you http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/index.html
another good explanation, with lots of examples
and another...
and a good dictionary
http://dictionaries.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=P
Please don't try to learn them all at once :D

 Reported Speech

Punctuation
Commas give lots of problems. You need to use a full stop at the end of a sentence; the teacher will notice if you try to join two sentences together without a proper conjunction!


 Conditionals
 http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional.htm
Very clear explanation of zero, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd conditionals.
Also:
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/conditionals.html
Mixed conditionals
For keen students, only when you have understood 3rd conditionals!
Explanation
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/mixedconditional.html
Tasks
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional10.htm

 Prepositions
This is a helpful introduction to prepositions.
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html
This verb+preposition (dependent prepositions) search is useful.
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/verb_preposition.html   
A good dictionary can help you, too.Don't try to learn them all at once!
Gerunds and infinitives ('verb patterns')
Oxford Living Grammar 
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/livinggrammar/pre/ - online exercises.
Irregular verbs
ALL (?) the irregular verbs in English, with examples of their use
http://www.theirregularverbs.com/verbList.php?language=spanish
The main tenses in English 
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html - good summaries of the USE of the tenses

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/english_tenses.htm  - all the English verb tenses

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/tenses1/index.php - Complex Test
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm - Exercises
Verb machine - make every English verb tense - PRACTICE mode, TENSES game, SENTENCES game

Word order videos

1. Word order: sentences

2. Word order: using adverbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVynXr3Yt8  especially expressing frequency and manner - video

 http://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-where-do-i-put-the-adverb/   adverbs of manner, place, quantity, time - video

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adverbials/adverbials-probability   expressing probability: maybe, perhaps, certainly

 http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adverbials/adverbials-time/already-still-yet-and-no-longer     already, still, yet, no longer

3. Word order: questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjR-3_ctBMA  video



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