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Grammar Bytes: Coordination and Subordination
For high school students, this resource could provide a quick and easy way to review sentence structure. The grammar presentation focuses on the use of main and subordinate clauses. It could be used as a test preparation tool.
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The Complex Sentence: Correcting Fragments
After defining and offering cogent examples of fragments and complex sentences, this instructional activity presents pupils with two passages. One they must revise. For the second, an excerpt from an E.B. White essay, they must identify...
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Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
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Comma Splices
Ah, the comma splice; somehow it works its way into middle and high schoolers' writing quite often. To start, this worksheet defines comma splice and focuses on the four ways to correct them. For practice, pupils correct the comma...
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Writing for Foreign Students Conjunctions
In this grammar activity, students combine six pairs of sentences with correlative conjunctions. Students also complete nine sentences with a pronoun or subordinate conjunction to complete each sentence grammatically correct.
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Peer Editing
Sudents read and critique three of their fellow classmates' science fiction short stories on three consecutive days for mechanics, short story elements, style, and informational elements.