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Fragments and Types of Sentences
For this online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding fragments and types of sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Exercises: Schoolhouse Rock
"Conjunction, junction, what's your function?" The lyrics to the classic Schoolhouse Rock episode "Conjunction Junction" accompany what was once a link to the video. Video has been "removed by the user," but it would be a snap to find...
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What Is in a Sentence, Paragraph, and Story?
Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...
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Language
Have your class doing everything from reading literature, analyzing literary devices, identifying independent and dependent clauses, discussing, and writing creatively with the rich resource found here. After a mini lesson on independent...
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Comma Usage
Sometimes it feels like young writers just place commas as they please! Ensure that your pupils uses these important punctuation marks properly by requiring them to study the information here and complete the grammar exercise....
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Use of "In Spite of / Despite" Oral Review
In this oral review worksheet, students work with a partner to change sentences. They change sets of sentences to include "in spite of" or "despite." They say the sentences orally while their partner checks them.
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Using Because, When, After, As, Although, Since, Even Though, and While
In this grammar instructional activity, students complete ten unfinished sentences by adding a commas where necessary when adding additional clauses and phrases.
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Infinitive Objects
In this infinitive objects activity, students read the explanations and examples of object infinitive phrases, then interactively complete 10 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Cause/Effect
In this cause and effect worksheet, students learn about 6 different ways to express cause and effect: adverb clause, preposition + noun phrase, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, special expression and reduced adverb clause.
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Using Connectors: Because and Though
In this using connectors: because and though worksheet, students red the explanations and examples for using these two conjunctions, then interactively complete 20 sentences using the correct words or punctuation, with immediate online...
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Using Connectors: Too and Either
In this using connectors: too and either activity, students read the explanations and examples of the two words, then interactively complete 20 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Parallelism, Including Correlative Conjunctions and Comparisons
After reading the first reference page about parallel structure using correlative conjunctions, young learners rewrite nine sentences with errors in parallelism. Even the strongest writers in your language arts class could benefit from...
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Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement
In this sentence variety learning exercise, students learn that modifier placement can make sentences more interesting. Students read 10 sentences and add an initial, mid-sentence or terminal modifier as directed. This is an on-line...
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Parallel Structure
In this language arts learning exercise, students read 6 sample sentences. They revise sentences that do not use parallel structure.
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Sentence Combining
Avoid short, choppy sentences in your class's writing by focusing on sentence structures. The first page in this two-page packet shows your class how to combine sentences using conjunctions, a list, an appositive, or compound predicate....