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English Exercises: Relative Clauses
Four short exercises give learners the opportunity to review relative clauses including should, might, who, which, or that. They complete a fill in the blank activity first before forming complete sentences from a collection of phrases...
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ESL Grammar Lessons
Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning grammar with this ESL resource. Offering a great way to teach about relative clauses, this activity engages students with a series of partner, small group, and whole class speaking and...
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Adjective Clauses Using That and Which
An online lesson that clearly, if exhaustively, explains when to use "that" or "which" to begin a relative clause, specifies exceptions to the rule, and notes when to set off such clauses with commas. Learners assess their mastery with...
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Non-defining relative clauses
Online, interactive resources provide a quick way to assess your learners. This resource contains 20 multiple choice questions about non-defining relative clauses. Learners will look at the words who, where, and which.
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Adjective Clauses
Encourage the knights and princesses in your class to practice adjective clauses and relative pronouns in a fairy tale-themed presentation! Several slides review the structure of sentences with adjective clauses before prompting your...
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Clauses: Essential Building-Blocks
Clear up clause confusion with this grammar handout, complete with a clause identification activity. Using the detailed information and examples of the different types of clauses provided in the activity, secondary learners identify and...
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Relative Clauses Test
For this grammar and writing test worksheet, students complete a three part quiz on relative clauses. They change portions of 5 sentences into relative clauses in part one. They remove the relative pronoun to make a good English sentence...
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Clauses: Building Blocks for Sentences
Colorfully animated and packed with engaging examples, this PowerPoint encourages to employ clauses to create a variety of sentence structures. Peer editing of sample paragraphs would provide an opportunity for guided practice with...
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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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Grammar Practice Workbook
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
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Variations of the Adjective Clause: Lesson 15
Help your students to vary their sentence structure with this presenation, which teaches them to use relative pronouns and adjective clauses to change the order of their sentences. The presentation details different ways to write the...
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Using Verbs with Relative Clauses Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students complete ten sentences by using a present-tense verb immediately after each relative pronoun.
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Subordination by Adjective Clauses
A must-see for teachers who are tired of reading essays full of simple sentences, this thorough and engaging presentation teaches students to subordinate independent clauses by turning them into adjective clauses. Don't be discouraged by...
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English Exercises: Relative Pronouns
In this online, interactive worksheet, emerging grammarians respond to seven fill in the blank questions that require them to use relative pronouns. After completing the exercise, they can submit their answers for immediate feedback!
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Grammar Practice: Restrictive vs. Non-Restrictive Clauses
Go over the basics of restrictive and non-restrictive clauses with this grammar worksheet. After reviewing the concepts, as well as the definitions of parentheticals and appositives, young learners label ten sentences as restrictive or...
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Relative Pronouns--Omission
In this grammar worksheet, students choose whether to omit or keep the relative pronoun in ten sentences. Students check their answers when completed.
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Relative Clauses
In this grammar instructional activity on relative clause, students review the proper use of the relative. Worksheet is an "instructional" page only.
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Adverb Phrases: Shortening Clauses to Modifying Phrases
Work on modifying phrases and improving writing technique with this worksheet. Young grammarians shorten clauses by modifying phrases to complete the sentences. They complete 16 sentences for practice. Scroll to the bottom of the page to...
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Semicolons
This is a fabulous activity! Grammar enthusiasts practice the art of correctly using a semicolon. They insert a semicolon to combine three independent clauses, three conjunctive adverbs to independent clauses, and to separate items in...
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Animal Behavior
In this grammar and writing worksheet, students use the relative clause "that" to write definitions of words that describe animal behavior. They write definitions for words such as terrestrial, nocturnal, domesticated, and diurnal.
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Non-Defining Relative Pronouns Exercise
In this relative pronouns worksheet, students review the three rules about non-defining relative clauses. Students then combine the sentences using non-defining relative pronouns to complete the 10 exercises.
Road to Grammar
Shopping
Talk about what you bought last weekend with plenty of activities centered around the theme of shopping. English language learners have the opportunity to listen, speak, write, and read over the course of these exercises. The resource...
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The Ingredients of Independent Clauses
In this independent clause worksheet, students complete a total of 10 questions related to independent clauses. Students may get immediate on-line feedback.
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Clauses
In this clauses worksheet, students correct sentences by inserting commas to set off clauses and change clause pronouns to 'that' when possible. Students combine two sentences into one using adjective clauses.