Interactive Quizzes
Some selected Quizzes. Original page is located at http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar/quiz_list.html-ssi 
The quizzes with a gold ball  are also listed within the section or digital handout to which they apply.

The twenty quizzes with a purple ball  and designated "Practice" have been adapted from the instructor's manual and other ancillary materials accompanying Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide. They are duplicated here with permission of the author, Evelyn Farbman, and the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Inc.

 The seventeen quizzes with a white ball  are mirrored, with permission, from the English Department of Northern Illinois University and are typical of quizzes given for NIU's English 207T course.

 Clicking on the NUMBER immediately before the quiz's name will take you to the section of the Guide pertaining to the grammatical issue(s) addressed in that quiz. Quizzes done in Javascript are followed by (js) and those done with CGI are followed by (cgi).

If you are using Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later or Explorer 4.0 or later, you can choose to select a quiz randomly. Go to the RANDOM QUIZ page, click on the button and a quiz will be selected for you from this list.

     
    BASIC SENTENCE PARTS
  1. Identifying Sentence Parts (js)
  2. Sentence Parts: Basic (js)
  3. Body Parts: Quiz One (js)
  4. Body Parts: Quiz Two (js)
  5. Body Parts: Quiz Three (js)
  6. Body Parts: Quiz Four (js)
  7. Recognizing Nouns (js)
  8. Exercise in Naming Nouns (js)
  9. Count and Non-Count Nouns (cgi)
  10. Nouns (Crossword) (js)
  11. Identifying Simple & Compound Subjects (js)
  12. Using Articles (js)
  13. Using Articles II (js)
  14. Articles and Determiners (cgi)
  15. Basic Quiz on Quantifiers (js)
  16. Quantifiers (js)
  17. Recognizing Adjectives (js)
  18. Adjectives (cgi)
  19. Adverbs (cgi)
  20. Recognizing Prepositions (js)
  21. Prepositions (js)
  22. Prepositions at Crosswords (js)
  23. Prepositions at Crosswords II (js)
  24. Prepositions at Crosswords III (larger) (js)

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    VERBS AND VERBALS

  26. Recognizing Verbs & Verb Strings (js)
  27. Recognizing Verbs & Verb Strings II (js)
  28. Identifying Verb Tenses (js)
  29. Verb Tense and Sentence Order (js)
  30. Subject-Verb Agreement (cgi)
  31. Subject-Verb Agreement II (js)
  32. Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement I (cgi)
  33. Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement II (cgi)
  34. Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement III (cgi)
  35. Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement IV (cgi)
  36. Agreement Problems (js)
  37. Agreement Problems II (js)
  38. Consistency in Tense and Pronouns (cgi)
  39. Irregular Verbs (cgi)
  40. Irregular Verbs (Crossword) (js)
  41. Using the Subjunctive (cgi)
  42. Conditional Verb Forms (js)
  43. Modal Auxiliaries (cgi)
  44. Phrasal Verbs (js)
  45. Phrasal Verbs II (js)
  46. Recognizing and Changing Passive Constructions (cgi)
  47. Practice: Test on -s Word Endings II (cgi)
  48. Practice: Test on -s Word Endings III (cgi)
  49. Practice: Test on Verb Endings (cgi)
  50. Practice: Final -ed Verb Endings II (cgi)
  51. Practice: Final -ed Verb Endings III (cgi)
  52. Gerunds and Infinitives (js)
  53. Gerunds and Infinitives II (js)

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    CLAUSES & PHRASES

  55. Independent Clauses (js)
  56. Ingredients of Independent Clauses (js)
  57. Dependent Clause Functions (js)
  58. Dependent Clauses (js)
  59. Types of Sentences (cgi)
  60. Recognizing Phrase Functions (js)
  61. Verbal (and other) Phrases (js)

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    STRUCTURAL FLAWS

  63. Repairing Sentence Fragments (js)
  64. Fragments and Run-on Sentences (cgi)
  65. Practice: Sentence Fragments (cgi)
  66. Practice: Sentence Fragments II (cgi)
  67. Practice: Sentence Fragments III (cgi)

  68. Fragments & Types of Sentences (js)
  69. Repairing Run-on Sentences (js)
  70. Practice: Run-on Sentences (cgi)
  71. Practice: Run-on Sentences II (cgi)
  72. Modifier Placement (cgi)
  73. Modifier Placement II (js)

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    PUNCTUATION & BASIC MECHANICS

  75. Comma Usage (js)
  76. Commas: Fill-in-the-blanks (js)
  77. Punctuation: Fill-in-the-blanks (js)
  78. Punctuation (cgi)
  79. Punctuation II (js)
  80. Punctuation III (js)
  81. Punctuation IV (js)
  82. Punctuation V (js)
  83. Quotation Marks (js)
  84. Basic Mechanics (js)
  85. Compound Nouns and Modifiers (cgi)
  86. Plurals and Possessives (cgi)
  87. Irregular Plurals and Non-Count Nouns (cgi)
  88. Possessives & Irregular Plurals (cgi)
  89. Practice: -s Word Endings (cgi)

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    PRONOUN USAGE

  91. Pronoun Usage (cgi)
  92. Pronoun Usage II (js)
  93. Pronoun Usage III (js)
  94. Who (cgi)
  95. Who II (js)
  96. Which, That and Who (js)
  97. Practice: Pronouns (cgi)
  98. Practice: Pronouns II (cgi)
  99. Practice: Pronouns III (cgi)


  100. STYLISTIC CONSIDERATIONS
  101. Sentence-Combining Skills I (js)
  102. Sentence-Combining Skills II (js)
  103. Sentence-Combining Skills III (js)
  104. Writing Concise Sentences (js)
  105. Parallel Structures (cgi)
  106. Parallel Structures II (js)
  107. Parallelism III (js)
  108. Illogical Comparisons & Mixed Constructions (js)

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    NOTORIOUS CONFUSABLES

  110. Notorious Confusables I (cgi)
  111. Notorious Confusables II (js)
  112. Notorious Confusables III (js)
  113. Notorious Confusables IV (js)
  114. Notorious Confusables V (js)
  115. Its/It's and There/Their/They're (cgi)
  116. Lie/Lay and Sit/Set (cgi)
  117. Except/Accept and Affect/Effect (cgi)

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    SPELLING

  119. Spelling Quiz I (cgi)
  120. Spelling Quiz II (cgi)
  121. Spelling Quiz III (Endings) (cgi)
  122. Spelling Quiz IV (with sound) (cgi)
  123. Spelling Quiz V (with sound) (cgi)
  124. Spelling Quiz VI (with sound) (cgi)
  125. Spelling Quiz VII (with sound) (cgi)
  126. Practice: Spelling (cgi)
  127. Practice: Spelling II (cgi)
  128. Practice: Spelling III (cgi)

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    VOCABULARY (College Level)
    The Pop-Up Lexicon accompanies the vocabulary quizzes and contains an extensive list of vocabulary words, definitions, and example sentences.

  130. Fill-in-the-Blanks I (cgi)
  131. Fill-in-the-Blanks II (cgi)
  132. Fill-in-the-Blanks III (cgi)
  133. Fill-in-the-Blanks IV (cgi)
  134. Fill-in-the-Blanks V (cgi)
  135. Fill-in-the-Blanks VI (cgi)
  136. GENERAL GRAMMAR QUIZZES
  137. Diction (js)
  138. General Grammar Review (js)
  139. General Grammar Review II (js)
  140. General Grammar Review III (js)
  141. Grammar's Crossword (js)
  142. Grammar's Crossword II (much bigger) (js)
  143. Grammatic Esoterica (js)

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 For students for whom English is a Second Language, we also highly recommend the Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students, a project of The Internet TESL Journal. That site contains hundreds of quizzes, most of them contributed by ESL teachers (and some students) from all over the globe.
 
 

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