Free Grammar Quizzes with Answers

A noun names a person, place, thing or idea. Common nouns are general (city); proper nouns name a particular one and start with a capital letter (Lagos).

A verb shows an action or a state of being. Tense tells when it happens: past, present or future.

A singular subject takes a singular verb (the dog barks); a plural subject takes a plural verb (the dogs bark).

A pronoun takes the place of a noun: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them, and possessives like mine and theirs.

Adjectives describe nouns (a tall tree). Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, and often end in -ly (she ran quickly).

Punctuation shows the reader where to pause, stop, ask or exclaim. Commas separate items in a list, join sentences with and/but/so, and set off introductory words.

Apostrophes show possession (Sam’s hat) or missing letters in contractions (don’t = do not). They never make a word plural.

Homophones sound alike but differ in meaning and spelling: there/their/they’re, your/you’re, to/too/two. Others are near-twins: affect/effect, then/than.