We have hundreds of lessons, tests, games, and word lists covering everything from basic vocabulary to tips for advanced writers. The site is packed with teaching resources, including video lessons, printable word lists, and shareable tests.
These lessons and teaching resources have been structured under two top-level headings: "Vocabulary and Speaking Practice" and "Essential Grammar." Most of the lessons make use of the speech synthesizer on your browser to help with pronunciation.
Here is a list of grammar videos designed for visual learners. These videos start with the parts of speech and advance to writing tips, more-specialized grammar terminology, and easily confused words.
Punctuation adds clarity and precision to writing. Here are our punctuation lessons that explain how to use apostrophes, brackets, colons, dashes, hyphens, semicolons, and quotation marks.
Vocabulary Lessons Using categories to learn words is an efficient approach to boosting vocabulary as it gives structure to the learning process and means words are learned in context.
Interactive grammar tests and simple games are a great way to confirm a lesson. Here is a list of hundreds of free grammar tests and games, which are grouped by word type or topic (e.g., punctuation, vocabulary).
You can review your answers at any point (including at the end of the test), and there are links to the related lessons on Grammar Monster. Click on your first black square to start.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns or pronouns. In schools, they are often introduced as 'describing words.' 'Old,' 'green,' and 'cheerful' are examples of adjectives.
Your dog smells awful. ("smells" links "The dog" to "awful.") Video Lesson Here is a video summarizing this lesson on verbs for kids: video lesson Here is a more advanced video on verbs: video lesson Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer video to text? Here is a list of all our grammar videos. This page was written by Craig Shrives.
