Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Descriptive Sensory Writing
In this lesson, 5th graders will engage in descriptive writing. Students will improve a piece of writing by using precise word choices that are full of sensory word choices.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Building Blocks of Language: The Eight Parts of Speech
This tutorial focuses on the 8 parts of speech and how they function in sentences. It offers a YouTube video of students rapping the 8 parts of speech, a slide show of the 8 parts of speech, examples, and how they function in sentences,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Modifiers
This tutorial provides a slideshow focusing on modifiers; it defines them, explains dangling and misplaced modifiers, gives examples, and tells how to prevent them. There is also a short automated slideshow of a practice example and its...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Parts of Speech Game: Word Invasion
Brush up your ability to identify parts of speech with an interactive game. Select at least two parts of speech and the speed you think you can handle for the game and click your mouse on the jellyfish words that match the part of speech...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word Classes and Word Forms
Links to information on different word forms including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and "wh" question words.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word of the Day
Links to seventeen different word lists under the following categories: common words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and interjections.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Bon/meilleur vs. Bien/mieux
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a concise and clear presentation of bon/bien, meillure/mieux, aussi bon/aussi bien etc. Contains usage examples and interactive practice exercises (written and audio).
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Double Comparatives and Superlatives
This page focuses on forming comparatives and superlatives and the misuse of double comparisons and superlatives such as "most fastest."
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Superlatives
This online lesson is on relative and absolute superlatives. The lesson is thorough and easy to understand, with ample examples. A short test at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of this grammar principle.
Other
Planet Interactive, Inc.: Learning Planet: Rats!
Play three multi-level interactive games where the player moves Rusty Rat back and forth trying to catch common nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs in a basket. Be sure to catch the correct part of speech because too many...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts
This site from Capital Community College Foundation provides all the different parts of speech and their definitions. It also shows word functions and their use.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Parts of Speech
This entry provides links to information about the correct usage of various parts of speech, complete with examples.
Other
Using English: English Language Quizzes
Over 200 short self-quizzes for English learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Quizzes span topics including spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar: Sentence Components
This lesson focuses on sentence components. It provides a slideshow with each of the eight parts of speech plus articles; it defines each and gives examples using them in sentences. It also offers the lyrics to "The Grammar Song" in...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: The Parts of Speech
This grammar tutorial site offers a thorough discussion of the various parts of speech.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa, Canada: The Parts of Speech
This site offers concise explanations of all the parts of speech in English, with plenty of examples to aid understanding.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Using Modifiers
In this interactive object, learners read about words that give information about another word in a sentence. Students also practice placing modifiers in sentences in drag and drop exercises.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Sentence Structure (Part of Speech)
This slideshow lesson focuses on using sentence structure and parts of speech to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It explains how to look for parentheses or commas after unfamiliar words to help determine meaning; it also shows...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Strong Language: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces adding emphasis through the use of strong language.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Qualifiers: Lesson 3
This slideshow define qualifiers (absolute and relative) and provides examples of how they establish levels of increased, decreased intensity or value. This lesson is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Qualifiers."
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