Common Grammar Errors — Stop Making These Grammar Mistakes
Grammar: Common grammar errors: articles, verb tenses, prepositions, and adjective order
Free ESL grammar exercise on common grammar errors themed around stop making these grammar mistakes. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 2 (elementary) ESL grammar exercise on education, practising common grammar errors: articles, verb tenses, prepositions, and adjective order. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The most common problems are with articles (a, an, the), verb tenses, adjective order, and prepositions. In French, you say je suis arrivé — in English, you say I arrived or I have arrived, depending on the situation.
Grammar
- Articles: a / an / the
- Use 'a' before consonant sounds, 'an' before vowel sounds. Use 'the' when both speaker and listener know which one. I saw a dog. The dog was big.
- Past simple vs.
- Past simple = finished time. Present perfect = no specific time or connection to now. I went there last year. I have been there before.
Sample items
- I ______ to London last year and loved it.
- She has ______ new job at a big company.
- We ______ the film yet — can you tell us about it?
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