Grammar in context

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Hello everyone,Does anybody know if there are sites that offer english grammar exercices IN CONTEXT, i.e., PARAGRAPHS and not sentences that should be completed with the correct verb form, modal, prepostion, quantifier, article, pronoun, etc.? And exercices on sentence transformation for an advanced level?Thank you very much for you help.Héla

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Hela Ferjani wrote on 09 Apr 2004:
[nq:1]Hello everyone, Does anybody know if there are sites that offer english grammar exercices IN CONTEXT, i.e., PARAGRAPHS and not sentences that should be completed with the correct verb form, modal, prepostion, quantifier, article, pronoun, etc.? And exercices on sentence transformation for an advanced level?[/nq]
I don't know of any, no. It's so much work to create such exercises. At least sentences are usually easy enough to write, but even with a single simple sentence, there is all too often a reasonable choice of forms.
I would suggest that you select a text you are certain is written in high-level standard English of the dialect of your preference and ask one of your friends to delete every 10th (or 5th or 20th) word, or perhaps, delete every 5th or 10th preposition, verb form, modal, etc, and then provide you with a list of all the words deleted, which you can look at after you've gone through once or twice and tried to fill in the blanks blind.
It would have to be a fairly straightforward text for a general audience, though, unless you want to verify your command of specialized vocabulary and grammatical forms.
I have no idea idea about advanced transformational grammar exercises. Do people still do those?

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[nq:1]Hello everyone, Does anybody know if there are sites that offer english grammar exercices IN CONTEXT, i.e., PARAGRAPHS and not ... quantifier, article, pronoun, etc.? And exercices on sentence transformation for an advanced level? Thank you very much for you help.[/nq]
Check out this site:
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

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[nq:2]Hello everyone, Does anybody know if there are sites that ... an advanced level? Thank you very much for you help.[/nq]
[nq:1]Check out this site: http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm[/nq]
That's a good site. Another possibility (not a Web site but a source of extensive exercises) is an AP English Language/Composition or English Literature/Composition study guide. In my experience, REA publishes the best such guides, and they are not expensive.

Chris Green

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