Over a number of years the exercises on this web site have been and are still being developed to assist in giving students realistic homework to do - whatever the topic involved. They have been broken down into the following groups which may be accessed from the individual index documents linked to by the buttons below. Each individual index document includes notes on usage and setting as necessary.

Note that during development the answer to some particular exercise may not yet have been produced. A tutor, however, may therefore in the shorter term decide to leave that particular exercise - or use it - as desired and appropriate,

• Homophones - and homonyms too, of course. These are exercises each having 20 sentences with a missing word - all the words in one exercise end in a particular homophone. This kind of exercise requires the student to make use of context to correctly identify the missing word in several of the more advanced examples. Answers are indexed separately.
• Synonyms - this index covers exercises, each again having twenty individual examples, which have a single word for which the student is to select one or more from a list of five which are synonyms. Again, in the more advanced exercises, several words may actually match - in different contexts. Answers are again indexed separately.
• Constructions - the exercises in this index require a student to write sentences illustrating the several contexts in which homonyms may appear. Similar exercises for simple synonyms are also contained in this group. Some sample constructions are indexed separately.

Anyone who has developed their own resources of these or other kinds which they may wish to share, are warmly invited to contact us using the e-mail link below.