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Word Usage: Will or Would?
In this word usage worksheet, students must complete sentences with either 'what will you...' or 'what would you...' depending on the context.
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Grammar Review Project
Pupils design an review and design an assessment for a grammar and usage unit.
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Unit 4 (Grammar and Word Choice Quiz)
In this grammar instructional activity, students complete a 3 page, 15 question multiple choice quiz on correct word use. Students complete each sentence with the correct word from 4 choices.
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Language Arts: Writing Skills Development
Students improve writing skills by expanding their self-perceptions. Next, they develop idea lists for writing topics. Their ideas become the basis for a class newspaper. following the creation of a group composition, students write...
Lincoln University
Using Possessives: How to Hit the Target Every Time!
Everyone talks about dotting your i's and crossing your t's, but what about curling your apostrophes? These important punctuation marks are the focus of this presentation. Class members will learn all about contractions, plurals, and...
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Subject and Predicates, Oh My!
Eliminate all doubt when it comes to sentence structure with nine thorough lesson plans. Whether you want your young writers to vary their sentence structure or shore up their knowledge of conjunctions and semicolons, these lessons are a...
McGraw Hill
Vocabulary Power
Augment your language arts units with a set of vocabulary worksheets. The packet is an excellent support to your vocabulary instruction that covers a variety of skills, including context clues, Greek and Latin roots, reference materials,...
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Avoiding Run-On Sentences (I)
Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...
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Must or Mustn't?
In this online/interactive grammar usage worksheet, students read incomplete sentences and fill in the blanks with the verbs "must" or "mustn't". Students choose 32 answers.
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Grammar, Vocabulary, and Idioms
In this grammar learning exercise, students fill in an appropriate word in the blanks of sentences that they come up with on their own. Students come up with 10 words on their own.
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Another, Other, and Others
In this English grammar worksheet, students differentiate between the usage of the words "another," "other," and "others." Students complete 20 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions using the correct word where appropriate
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States of Being
Use this with your English language learners or your English grammar classes. Bring your class to the computer lab, and access this website. First they read about the states of being and some common mistakes. Then they complete a short...
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Quiz 7A: Add One Of + Superlative + Plural Noun
In this rewriting sentences worksheet, students read sentences with adjectives plus nouns and rewrite them using one of plus a superlative and a plural noun. Students rewrite 10 sentences.
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Used To or Be/Get Used to Exercise
In this correct grammar usage worksheet, students read incomplete sentences and complete them using used to plus infinitive, be used to plus object or verb plus -ing, or get used to pus object or verb plus -ing. Students circle the 10...
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Word Usage: Could Have / Couldn't Have
In this word usage learning exercise, students must determine whether to use 'could have' or couldn't have' to fill in the blanks in sentences.
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Word Usage: Because, Because of, Due to
In this word usage worksheet, students complete exercises using because, because of, due to, or due to the fact. Students fill in the blanks and write sentences.
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The Classification Station
Second graders identify proper nouns and categorize them by subject. They apply correct principles of grammar: they write complete sentences, use correct capital letters, use correct punctuation and apply correct rules of usage and...
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You Be the Editor
Young editors work in teams to find all the errors in a text. They identify grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Use this activity to reinforce correct usage of prominent punctuation symbols, such as apostrophes and ellipses. You...
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Ida B. Wells
Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...
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Rules of Thumb for Diction
What is the difference between accept and except? Affect and effect? Brilliantly advise your class with the advice in these slides. Definitions of commonly misused words from A-Z help clarify meaning and usage.
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Confused and Misused Words and Phases
This grammar lesson will definitely help your students ace the next skills evaluation. Provided are several examples of words that are commonly misused, confused, or misspelled. Five different strategies are given to help students avoid...
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Using the Subjunctive
How can you get your class to remember how to use the subjunctive tense in French? Create mobiles and booklets! Pupils work in groups to make mobiles that depict the correct usage of the subjunctive, and for each time they use one of the...
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Fanatically Grammatically Correct
Research guidelines for correct usage, then explore how creative writers employ punctuation as an essential tool in their craft. Secondary classes create board games to teach elementary school students how to properly punctuate. From the...
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Punctuation
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...