English Grammar Worksheets

These English grammar worksheets provide a variety of practice exercises. They go over verb tenses, sentence structures, parts of speech, and common errors.

Most practice is in context, using conversations or short paragraphs rather than bare lists to learn. Worksheet packets also include games to learn and review the more difficult structures. (Teachers: see also Printable ESL Classroom Games.)

For explanations of the grammar involved, see also English Grammar Lessons and English Verb Tenses. For similar practice online, see Grammar Practice.

The individual English grammar worksheets on this page are all free. You can view and print them online, or you can download them as pdfs. 

The past tense packet offers many more worksheets as well as game suggestions and materials.

You will need Adobe or another pdf reader to read these pdfs. If you do not have Adobe Reader, you can download it, free, here.

Free Single Verb Tense Worksheets

• Practice the Top 50 Irregular Past Tense Verbs (with a list of the verbs and two stories to demonstrate their use.)

• Practice Irregular Past Tense Verbs with American History

• Talking about Jobs: Practice the Past and Perfect Tenses

• Practice Present Tense Verbs (simple present and present continuous)

• Future Tense Practice

See also Games to Practice the Past Tense in Printable ESL Classroom Games. It has more memory games (besides the two in the packet below.)  It also has sentence scrambles and other ways to play with irregular past tense verbs in English.

Other (Free) English Grammar Worksheets

   • Modals Practice. Practice using the modal verbs can, could, will, would, must, and might, as well as the negative contractions can't and won't, in sentences and questions.

   • Adverb Clause Practice. Adverb clauses can be difficult. There are two sets of sentences in this worksheet. In the first, you need to choose which of these adverbs makes the most sense in each clause: after, even though, if, since, that, what, when, where. In the second set you choose the answer that best explains what the sentence with the adverb clause means.

   • Word Family Practice. Practice the different parts of speech related to  several verbs that can be confused with each other based on related words in other languages.

For example, to assist or to attend and their related nouns including assistance, assistant, attention, attendance, attendant; adjectives assisted, unassisted, attentive, inattentive or unattentive (much less common); and the adverb attentively.

There are also sentences with gaps or blanks to complete with the correct form.

Again, you can practice much of this (and more that I don’t yet have in pdfs) in the pages on Grammar Practice.

If you're preparing for a big test like the IELTS or TOEFL and need to practice your writing, see English Essay Writing Practice.

Past Tense Verb Worksheets for Classrooms

This 18-page packet (30 pages with answer keys +) provides several ways to practice the past tense of regular and common irregular verbs.

Much of the practice is in context (conversations or reading.)

Most of the worksheets are simple enough for students to use on their own for homework or extra practice. (You could also give to early finishers or save some for a sub.)

Most games are for the whole class. The memory cards would also work in a center, for a few early finishers or even as a solitaire activity.

There are worksheets and game ideas to for regular and irregular verbs in the simple and continuous past tenses. Practice over 50 common irregular verbs in sentences and as gap-fills in longer text. Most are used at least three or four times. 

Contents:

• Teaching Suggestions and Game Ideas. (20 Questions, Bingo, Memory, and Liar are all useful for practicing aspects of the past tense) 
• 32 Memory Game cards to practice 16 common irregular verbs. (These can also be glued together as flash cards.)
• 2 optional colored and designed backs for the memory cards
• an optional bingo template (Alternative: have students fold and make their own per directions in the Teaching Suggestions.)
• The Simple Past Tense: Regular Verbs (examples and practice)
• Practice ‘To Be’ in the Simple & the Continuous Past Tense (including questions and negatives)
• 20 Very Common Irregular Past Tense Verbs (practice in sentences)
• More Simple Past Tense Questions and Answers
• Past Tense Verbs ending in 'Aught’ and ‘Ought’ 
• Verbs that Don’t Change from Present to Past (& Practice Irregular Verbs for Accidents)
• 20 More Common Irregular Verbs (with practice) 
• Review Irregular Verbs: American History. (For a preview, see individual pdf in Verb Tense Worksheets above.) 
• Review the Top 50 Irregular Verbs with Stories. (Like the pdf above in Verb Tenses but without the list of 50 irregulars.)
• Answer Keys 

You can see reviews of these verb worksheets  by other teachers on Teachers Pay Teachers or buy the packet there (same link) for $7.00.

Let me know if there are other areas of grammar you want to practice, or exercises in the Grammar Practice section you would like to be able to download as a pdf.

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