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Verb Issues I
See the variety of verbs spelled out in these slides. From infinitives to intransitives, each verb is defined and shown with examples. Relationships of verbs to other parts of a sentence are clearly explained. This complex subject is...
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Gerunds and Participles
Young grammarians are asked to demonstrate their ability to identify gerunds, gerund phrases, participles, and participial phrases. The resource could be used as an assessment or practice review.
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Sentence Styles: Lesson Ten
For a basic overview of phrases (prepositional, absolute, appositive, and participial), use this presentation in your grammar unit. Each slide contains a short explanation and an example, concluding with a slide about relative clauses....
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The Verbal Trio - Learning about Verbals
Do you know what a gerund is? Use this grammar instructional activity 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...
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Verbal Practice Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined part of speech in twenty sentences as a gerund, participle or infinitive.
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Practice with Past Perfect
In this practice with past perfect worksheet, 8th graders write a complete sentence for each of the 12 words given using the past perfect tense.
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Pick a Particle: In, On or Up
In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students read sentences that are missing participles. Students mentally make note of the words that should fill in each of the blanks and then click to reveal the correct answers.
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Participles
In this participles worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive worksheet. Students choose the best word to fit into the sentence.
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Irregular Past Participles
In this irregular past participles worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with the appropriate participles. Students also determine the function of the participles. Students write 5 original sentences using the listed...
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Irregular Past Participles
In this irregular past participles worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with the appropriate participles. Students also determine the function of the participles. Students write 5 original sentences using the listed...
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Participles
In this participles worksheet, students read about participles and participial phrases, then describe nouns with participles and underline participial phrases in 4 sentences.
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Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb learning exercise, students read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence for...
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Passive Participles
In this ESL worksheet, students will focus on the correct usage of passive participles. Students will respond to five statements, choosing the correct participle form for each.