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Indirect Questions
In this indirect questions worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb phrase that completes ten sentences grammatically correct. Students check their answers when they finish.
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Auxiliary Verb Worksheet 6
In this grammar learning exercise, students underline the complete verb phrase in twenty-five sentences. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Identifying Subjects and Verbs 2
In this grammar worksheet, learners put parentheses around all prepositional phrases, identify verbs by placing a V over each one and place an S over each subject in ten sentences.
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The Gerund Phrase
Do your young grammarians need extra practice identifying gerund phrases? After reading a short definition and studying examples, learners underline the gerund phrases in 20 sentences. This worksheet could be used as the basis of a...
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Choosing the Correct Verb
In this grammar activity, learners circle the subject, x-out confusing words (prepositional phrases) and choose the correct verb that makes five sentences grammatically correct.
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What is a Preposition?
Where and when should you use prepositions? A handy instructional activity provides examples and instructions about prepositions and prepositional phrases, as well as eight practice sentences. Learners underline the prepositional phrases...
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Marking Sentences
To complete this instructional activity, your class needs to know how to find the subject, verb, prepositional phrase, and infinitive in basic sentences. While the sentences themselves are short, most learners will need to read through...
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Use of the Verb "Keep"
In this phrasal verb worksheet, middle schoolers write translations for different meanings of the verb "keep", complete sentences and make up new ones with "keep".
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Building a Sentence Using Subject, Verb, Object
In this building sentences worksheet, students use the word order grid to help them create sentences using nouns, adverbs, adjectives, and verbs.
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Collocations-Verbs
In this adverb worksheet, students select from a list of twelve adverbs to complete the sentences. Each sentence has one missing word. This worksheet is intended to be used with upper-intermediate English language learners.
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The Imperative
What is the imperative tense? Use this worksheet to introduce the tense. The first section contains information and examples, and the second section is a short post-assessment.
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Gerund or Infinitive after the Verb: Exercise 1
In this gerund and infinitive practice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 15 sentences with the correct forms of gerunds or infinitives. Students also respond to 4 short answer questions regarding gerunds and infinitives.
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Sentence Problems
Writing is tough to perfect. Help your class improve their writing skills by studying different sentence problems. This reference guide covers sentence fragments, run-ons, and misplaced modifiers, but that's just to start! There's a...
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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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"Robin Hood"
For this "Robin Hood" worksheet, students, with a partner, discuss the differences in meaning between rob and steal, match eight words associated with Robin Hood and match six words/phrases with their proper definitions.
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The Verbal Trio - Learning about Verbals
Do you know what a gerund is? Use this grammar worksheet to help emerging grammarians learn about using different verbs (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 11 questions...
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a instructional activity that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young...
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read Teague's...
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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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Infinitive (Noun) Recognition Practice
In this noun infinitives practice worksheet, middle schoolers read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 15 questions that require them to identify the infinitives in each sentence and label them as subject, direct object,...
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The Subjunctive
How are subjunctives incorporated into the writing process? Young grammarians investigate the proper usage of the subjunctive mood, and combine parts of sentences from one column with those from another column to make eight logical...