General Help | Nouns and Pronouns | Verbs and Adverbs |
Parts of Sentences | Spelling

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Mastering a language, whether it is your own or a second language, is an ongoing process. These handouts are designed to help students of English as a Second Language (ESL) with the most frequent problems in writing grammatically correct English.

General Help

• ESL Reference
• ESL Prepositions
• Identifying Parts of Speech
• Articles
• Appositives
• Voice (Active/Passive)

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Nouns and Pronouns

• Noun and pronoun agreement
• Objects: direct and indirect
• Pronoun agreement
• Pronoun case
• Pronoun reference
• Relative pronouns
• Forming the plural of nouns

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Verbs and Adverbs

• Main verbs, helping verbs
• Conjugation of the verb "TO BE"
• Subject-verb agreement
• Subject-verb rules
• Verb tenses
• Verbs: transitive, intransitive
• Adverbs
• Verbals

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Parts of Sentences

• Parts of a sentence
• Sentence types
• Sentence fragments
• Clauses
• Conjunctions
• Dangling modifiers
• Parallel structure
• Run-ons

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Spelling

• Common prefixes, roots, and suffixes
• Spelling rules
• Spelling tips
• 150 words most often misspelled

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