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Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Understanding and Using English Grammar: Because/Because of/ Due to
English learners practice using "because," "because of," "due to the fact that," and "due to" correctly. A brief explanation of the correct usage of these phrases is provided, as well as twenty-two questions for learners to practice.
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Usage Errors
Look at the most commonly confused words in the English language! This resource briefly explains the difference between there, they're, and their as well as too, to, and two, and finally it's and its. First, read the section entitled...
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Written and Oral English language conventions: Independent Practice
Sit or sat? Passed or past? Assess your pupils’ mastery of verb usage with 10 multiple choice questions. Learners must select the correct sentence from the listed four options.
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 8 - Exercise 1b
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Grammar and Usage: Short Answer Quiz/Review
This comprehensive assessment tool covers parts of speech, transitivity, punctuation, common usage errors, and verb tense. Your budding grammarians demonstrate knowledge of an array of discrete points of correct usage in English. I'd use...
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Commas: Conventional Usage
This four-page handout explains in detail when and why to use commas. Three extended sentences provide an opportunity for practice splitting long sentences into shorter ones. Multiple examples help to clarify correct usage.
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Word Usage: Choosing the Right Verb
In this word usage: choosing the right verb worksheet, student interactively select the correct verb to complete 20 sentences having to do with having something done, with immediate feedback.
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Word Usage: Verbs Beginning With "H"
In this word usage: verbs beginning with H instructional activity, students interactively choose the correct word beginning with H to complete 20 sentences, with immediate online feedback.
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CTBS Usage Practice #1: Grammar
In this grammar usage worksheet, students review conjunctions, pronouns, subjects and predicate, topic sentences, and verbs. After reading a review on these different subjects, students answer thirty three multiple choice, fill in the...
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Fundamentals of English Grammar-- Final Examination
In this grammar examination worksheet, students complete a 40 question multiple choice test. Included are questions on word usage and error correction. Note: There is the name of a professor at the top of the exam.
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Word Usage: Present Tense Verbs
In this word usage: present tense verbs worksheet, students complete 10 sentences in multiple choice format with the correct verb form interactively with immediate online feedback.
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Word Usage: Work Places Vocabulary
For this word usage: work places vocabulary worksheet, students interactively select the phrase that is described as a work place, with immediate online feedback.
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Word Usage: Verb + "out"
In this word usage: verb + "out" learning exercise, students complete 20 multiple choice sentences selecting the correct verb with "out", interactively and with immediate feedback.
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Apostrophe Usage
Helpful as a review activity and a reference sheet for your middle schoolers' binders, this worksheet clarifies the proper ways to use apostrophes. Indicating that they should be used in three cases ("weird" plurals, contractions, and...
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Word Usage #15
In this word usage #15 worksheet, students interactively choose the words do, have or make to complete 10 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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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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English Exercises: Quantifiers Too and Enough
For this quantifiers worksheet, 5th graders read explanations and examples of correct usage, then complete 34 sentences, with immediate online feedback.
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English Exercises: Similes
In this English exercises: similes activity, 6th graders read the explanation and examples of similes, then interactively fill in 15 sentences using similes, with immediate online feedback.
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English Exercises: Verb To Be
In this English exercises: verb to be worksheet, 4th graders interactively complete 18 sentences using am/is/are, then select the correct verb form to complete 12 sentences, fill in 17 words in a story and answer 8 questions about the...
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CTBS Usage Practice #4: Grammar
In this CTBS usage practice instructional activity, students identify the incorrect sentence from four multiple choice options, with seventeen questions total.
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Future Tense Usage
For this future tense worksheet, students read about "will" and "going to" sentences and examples of their usage. Students create two "will" and "going to" sentences, and identify the correct future tense phrases in twelve sentences.
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Interesting & Interested, etc.
While just a quick review of word usage, this ten question activity could be a great filler activity. Learners could hone their vocabulary and spelling skills using this quiz which can be done both online or as a worksheet.
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Elementary Reading: Five Passages with Questions
Five brief readings with questions support practice with various literacy skills. In some cases, learners identify whether underlined words are spelled correctly. Other times, they answer reading comprehension questions about the text or...