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The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on clauses; it defines the term and the two main types: independent and dependent. It lists the two types of dependent clauses: adjective and adverb; it provides examples of each, explains how to identify...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Nominalizations

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial begins with a slide show which defines nominalizations; gives examples of adjectives and adverbs changed into nouns, gerunds, and infinitives. Practice with simplifying nominalizations is provided. It also offers a YouTube...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: The Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Ottawa's Writing Center developed this site. The major sections of the site are "Comma Usage" and "Superfluous Commas." Right and wrong examples are included, along with links for definitions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on adding variety to your writing with sentence openers. A PowerPoint presentation explains sentence openers and gives examples of ways to create interesting sentences, such as beginning with a prepositional phrase,...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Grammar Logs #311

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page, which seems to be connected to the online "Guide to Grammar and Writing," provides a log of questions to the author of the online "Guide." The fourth question explains and provides an example of how other parts of speech...
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Other

Kryss Tal: Grammar: Introduction to Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very good overview of grammar components. Grammar examples and links are provided.
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Other

Saint Michael's College: Semicolon and Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the three major uses of the semicolon and provides examples for each of the uses. Also discusses the use of the colon.