Interactive Exercises for ENG 3321 in Spring 2013
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Flashcards for lesson 1 vocabulary (show the term first, then the definition) |
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Reversed flashcards for lesson 1 vocabulary (show the definition first, then the term) |
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Drag-and-drop matching for lesson 1 vocabulary |
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Crossword for lesson1 vocabulary |
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Vocabulary Fill-In This is a very short exercise, but it may be useful. |
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Quizlet sets for S2013 lessons and units (learning activities and games) (There is a mobile site that will probably work on your phone, and there is also a free iPhone app.) |
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Overview of the history of the English language |
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Creating New Words: Where Do New Words Come From? (The clues for this crossword are examples of words created by the methods discussed in Essential Linguistics.) |
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Basic Sentence Pattern Practice (This lets you practice identifying the seven patterns identified in Essentials of Grammar. There is a link to information about Reed-Kellogg diagramming for each type. |
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More Sentence Pattern Practice |
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Flashcards for Inflections |
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Drag-and-Drop Practice Matching Inflections and Parts of Speech |
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Greek and Latin Morphemes Flashcards Greek and Latin Morphemes Matching |
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Sentence Constituents (Flash Cards) |
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Sentence Constituents Matching |
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Practice Identifying Sentence Constituents |
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More practice with sentence patterns (based on Glauner's seven basic patterns) |
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Basic Sentence Types Maze |
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Phonemic Transcription |
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Flashcards (see the name of the constituent, then the structure used to diagram it) |
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Flashcards (see the structure, then the name of the constituent it is used to diagram) |
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Matching (drag the correct structure to the name of the constituent) |
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Exercises for Practice with Reed-Kellogg Diagrams (These are the old ones that some of you had trouble with.) |
Exercises From Earlier Semesters These may still be useful.:
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Exercise 10.2 If you cannot get the version of this exercise that appears in Blackboard to work, use this one. When you finish it, press Print Screen while your score is visible on your computer screen. Open Word and paste the image of the screen into a Word document. (Pressing Print Screen puts an image of the screen on your clipboard.) Save the Word document & e-mail it to me. |
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Critical Vocabulary Items (Flashcards) This link leads to two sets of flashcards. The first gives definitions and asks you to name the word defined, while the second has underlined examples of structures and asks you to come up with the correct term to describe the underlined structure. |
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Crosswords for Vocabulary Review: #1 and #2 (two versions of the same crossword) These contain some words that we don't use every semester, but you may find them useful. |
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Terms for Unit Test #1 This crossword was made for another semester, but the vocabulary it tests belongs to the course in general, and this page would be good to use for review. |
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Flash Cards for Learning Symbols Used in Phrase-Structure Rules |
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Symbols Used in Phrase-Structure Rules: Matching Symbols and Meanings |
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Reading Phrase-Structure Rules |
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Sentence Pattern Maze for The Uses of Grammar |
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More Practice with Basic Sentence Types (The Uses of Grammar) |
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Crossword for Lesson 1, F2009 (Names and Terms from Chapters 1 & 2 or The Uses of Grammar) |
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Simple? Compound? Complex? This page is not interactive, but it is very helpful. |
Other Sources of Interactive Exercises:
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Guide to Grammar and Writing This extensive site has many interactive exercises. |
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If you use Google to search for interactive grammar quizzes, you will find many pages, but most of them will be correctness-oriented or else will be intended for student learning English as a foreign language. Let me know if you find good pages aimed at the kind of work we are doing. |
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