List of Exercises

Here is a list of exercises you can do:

• Adjective order - what order to write or say adjectives in, and a technique to help you to memorise them.
• Apologise / apologises / apologies - the grammar of apologise.
• Articles and Geography - teaches you the correct articles to use before countries, cities, islands, mountains, lakes, seas and oceans.
• Because or Due to the fact that - an explanation and an exercise.
• Categorisation - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed for the function of categorisation, and includes a short exercise to help you check that you understand.
• Cause and Effect - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe causes and effects. Includes an exercise.
• Complain / complaint / complained - the grammar of 'complain'
• Conditional Clauses
• Contrast Clauses - in spite of the fact that, etc.
• Contrast clauses - sentence patterns
• Describing Numbers - an explanation, a program to write and speak a number, and an exercise
• EAP Resources Exercises
• How to write e-mail
• Explanation of functions in essay titles, and an exercise on which functions to use
• Formal and Informal Sentences - a matching exercise
• Functions Correction Exercise - to help you with the functions of definition, comparison and contrast.  Includes an exercise.
• Relative clauses
• Replacing 'get'
• Replacing idioms with formal verbs
• If - Explanation of 'if ' sentences and how to choose which sentence structure to use.
• It is because and this is because - an explanation and an exercise
• Important or Importance? Explanation and exercise on which word to use.
• Importance and Unimportance
• Job Interview Questions - a multiple-choice quiz.
• 'Lack' or 'Lack of'? - an explanation and an exercise
• Letter of adjustment (Reply to a Letter of Complaint) correction exercise.
• Prepositions and collocations for job application letters in a Grammar Aliens game.
• Modals and tentativity
• Nouns
• Passive Voice
• Precise Words
• Prefix Meanings - a matching exercise
• Prefixes Crossword
• Prepositions and Geography - grammar rules and a multiple choice exercise.
• The Use of Prepositions in Job Applications
• Problem areas: prepositions
• Prepositional phrases
• Purpose, reason and result clauses
• Referencing Exercises:
  - Spot the errors and correct them in in-text references.
  - Spot the errors and correct them in bibliographical references.
• Satisfaction - choosing between 'satisfy', 'satisfied', 'satisfying' and 'satisfactory', etc.
• Sentence Types
• Staff or Staffs? Using the right part of speech of staff.
• Subject-verb agreement - an explanation and an exercise.
• Suffixes
• Suffixes for Meaning and Word Class
• Suffixes for New Words
• Synonyms for nouns
• Synonyms for verbs
• Tentativity - an explanation and an exercise
• The Plan of the English Verb - how to choose what tense to use.
• Transitivity - transitive and intransitive verbs
• Trends - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe trends. Includes an exercise.
• Trends Headings - this exercise shows how to use headings when describing trends. Includes an exercise.
• Vocabulary: Common Confusions - a developmental quiz with feedback.