Em Casalena Last updated: April 1, 2024

Advanced Grammar Exercises: 14 Sites That Cover Every Advanced English Topic

Use it or lose it.

Ever heard of this English expression?

It means you have to keep working even if you’re already good at something.

That’s why it’s so important for advanced English learners to use challenging grammar exercises.

The advanced English grammar exercises in this article will help you learn complex new grammar topics to keep moving towards English fluency.

Do Advanced Learners Still Need Grammar Exercises?
14 Advanced English Grammar Exercises to Amp up Your English Game

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Do Advanced Learners Still Need Grammar Exercises?

Grammar is the backbone of any language. Memorizing vocabulary words and phrases can get you somewhere, but you won’t truly become fluent in English unless you understand and can comprehend English grammar. Exercises can help with that, no matter what stage of English learning you’re at.

In fact, one could argue that grammar exercises are especially important for advanced English learners. Just reading complex grammar rules without actually trying them yourself won’t help you really remember them.

As you’ll see in our list below, advanced exercises usually target specific English grammar rules. This helps you focus on the most difficult elements and learn them effectively.

Even if you’ve managed to figure out English grammar on your own for the most part, there’s a good chance you’ll run into difficulties as things get more advanced. Using exercises designed for advanced ESL learners can help you overcome them.

14 Advanced English Grammar Exercises to Amp up Your English Game

1. esl-lounge Advanced Grammar Exercises

esl-lounge is a great website if you want a variety of ESL resources to sift through.

Their exercises cover a ton of complex grammar topics, including difficult verb tenses, direct speech vs. reported speech, inverted statements and a lot more. Each exercise is accompanied by “grammar references” where you can read about that particular grammar concept before diving into the exercises.

If you want a really thorough exercise resource that covers just about everything to do with advanced English grammar, this is the spot for you.

2. FluentU

With FluentU, you’ll learn advanced English grammar the way native speakers use it in their own media and real life.

FluentU is a language learning program that teaches English using authentic web videos like movie trailers, news segments and music videos. Each video offers interactive captions, enabling you to click on words and phrases for a definition, example sentences and a list of videos that use the term.

The program’s approach is far from traditional, so you’ll be absorbing the grammar more than studying it. When you see the grammar used in context, the meanings connect in your brain more naturally.

3. Practice Exercises by Oxford University Press

If quizzes help you memorize concepts and ideas with ease, you should try Oxford University Press’ page on advanced English grammar exercises. All 10 practice exercises are in quiz form and are very basic in concept. You either fill in blank spaces with the correct word, answer multiple-choice questions or click on grammar mistakes in the quiz sentences.

The focus of these exercises is mainly on advanced word order, sentence structure and prepositions.

You can retake the quizzes over and over until you’re satisfied that you’ve learned the correct grammar forms.

4. Preposition Exercises from Agenda Web

Are you really struggling with advanced prepositions in English? Agenda Web has collected grammar exercises from all over the internet that would be perfect for you, as they focus mostly on difficult or confusing prepositions.

Among several other topics, Agenda Web’s list of advanced English grammar exercises will teach you:

Which verbs go with which prepositions
Prepositions that are often confused
Compound prepositions

The exercises vary greatly in form, so they won’t leave you bored. Some are flash games, others are quizzes and still others are interactive lessons. If anything will get you through advanced English prepositions, it’s this list of exercises.

5. English Grammar Quizzes by Activities for ESL Students

Activities for ESL Students has so much content that’s helpful for any level of English learner. Their list of advanced English grammar exercises is thorough and covers many advanced grammar and vocabulary concepts, including difficult verb tenses and word forms, the order of adjectives, advanced subject/verb agreement and more. Another cool thing about this site is a lot of the exercises are based on history or culture from the English-speaking world, like American holidays or English news headlines.

This site is especially helpful because it caters to different types of advanced English learners. If you’re just starting with advanced grammar, try the “medium to difficult” exercises. If you’re on your way to fluency, skip to the “difficult” exercises.

Many of these exercises are accompanied by text or audio lessons as well, so you get everything you need when it comes to learning advanced English grammar all in one spot.

6. The Classroom’s Grammar Exercises

This a great resource to bookmark if you’re looking for physical grammar exercises, not just online interactive exercises. The exercises are very flexible and designed to test your overall advanced grammar knowledge.

Even though these exercises are intended for teachers, you can still use them yourself. Try them on your work break, at the gym and anywhere else where you can mentally practice grammar. The exercises include:

“Fill in the blank:” Put together different sentences from an article or blog post and remove parts of the sentence. Use context clues and your previous grammar knowledge to fill in the blanks.

“Change the place:” Look up sentences in either “active” or “passive” voice and rearrange them to be the opposite.

“Share your mistakes:” Read articles online and try to find incorrect grammar. Correct them and analyze why they’re incorrect.

7. Advanced English Grammar Tests by English Tests Online

If you can never have enough online tests, English Tests Online is a website you’re going to love.

An interface that could seem not very user-friendly hides literally hundreds upon hundreds of grammar tests for advanced students on topics that go from word order and question tags to gerunds and conditional sentences (and everything in between).

You can also take several general advanced grammar tests that’ll assess your overall knowledge of English grammar, all in just a couple of clicks.

The tests normally come in the form of multiple-choice exercises, and every single one of them can be either taken online or downloaded for free.

If you want to have a quick glance at all the goodies they have to offer, click on the PDF tab, scroll down and click on “Advanced English Grammar Tests PDF.” You’re welcome.

8. CPE Grammar Test Level C2 by Exam English

Do you think you’re ready to get your Certificate of Proficiency in English? With Exam English, you can get your answer in 50 questions!

Don’t let the simplicity of this site fool you. Once you start taking this C2 Proficiency grammar test, you’re going to sweat—a lot! No wonder they called this level “Super Advanced.”

The test will let you choose answers for each question until you pick the correct one, but only those questions answered correctly on the first try are counted.

Even though the site doesn’t give you any kind of feedback other than the final number of correct answers, this number should be an indicator of whether you’re ready for the real deal or not.

The site also lets you practice other CPE exam parts such as reading, use of English and listening.

Do you have what it takes to pass them all?

9. Advanced Grammar by LDOCE Online

Longman wants to make sure you know everything about advanced English grammar, and to help you with that, it gives you free access to this superb website where you have hundreds of exercises on many different topics.

The tasks and tests are divided into five big categories:

Modal verbs
Conditionals, subjunctives and the “unreal” past
Reported speech
The grammar of formal English
The grammar of spoken English

Each category is divided into several subcategories, which in turn include tons of exercises on a ton of different topics.

The site recommends you first take the diagnostic test for each category so that you can identify what you know and what you don’t. The diagnostic tests are divided into different parts and can also be considered a final “revision test” for each of the five categories.

10. (Advanced) Grammar Exercises by English 4U

To access the advanced grammar exercises on this site, scroll down until you see the green heading “ADVANCED.” There, you’ll find quizzes that include topics such as:

adjectives
prepositions
conditional clauses
modal verbs
reported speech
word order

11. Advanced Subject-verb Agreement + Exercises by Espresso English

If you’ve been learning English for any amount of time, chances are you’ve heard of Espresso English. They cover their English lessons in an easy-to-understand manner while still keeping them appropriate to your level.

For example, in their exercise on advanced subject-verb agreement, you’ll learn about subjects that look plural but are treated as singular (e.g., everybody, anyone) and take a quick quiz right afterward.

If you want to see more of their quizzes, you can click on “Free Sample Lessons” and check out what else they have to offer before you sign up for any of their courses.

12. (Advanced) English Grammar Tests by LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

On this site, there are a ton of advanced-level tests for idioms, causative verb tenses, conditional tenses, future tenses, phrasal verbs and noun or adverb clauses. Best of all, once you’re done, you can get your answers in an instant!

Just make sure you click the link above, scroll down to the sections from “Articles” onwards and only take the ones marked “(A)” for advanced learners and/or “(I/A)” for intermediate and advanced learners.

13. Grammar Practice Worksheets by National Geographic

Yes, that National Geographic has resources for advanced English learners as well.

Unfortunately, they don’t come in the form of interactive exercises. Instead, you have to download .zip files that contain PDF documents with lessons and quizzes. The answer key for all the quizzes is in the last PDF file.

If you like to review the old-fashioned way (printing out lessons and scribbling your answers as you go), this one may be up your alley. It’s National Geographic, after all: you can count on them to give you thorough, accurate materials that have been reviewed by language experts.

14. C1 Grammar (Exercises) by the British Council

Let’s save the best for last! The British Council is an organization dedicating to promoting the learning of the English language around the world, so you can be sure the materials on their website are accurate and reliable.

From the link above, you can choose any of the grammar topics under the C1 category. Once you read and understand the explanations given under each topic, you can take their interactive quizzes and get results right after you hit “Finish.”

If you’re preparing for the IELTS, they have a course for that too.

There are so many handy advanced English grammar exercises out there, it’s pretty incredible! Bookmark a few of these great resources to use during study or practice. You’ll be glad you did.