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Finding Verbs
In this grammar activity, students circle the main verb and underline the helping or auxiliary verb or verbs in fifteen sentences.
Azar Grammar
Women’s History Month Eleanor Roosevelt : Verb Corrections
Read a short passage about Eleanor Roosevelt while hunting for errors in verb use. To give your kids some help, count up the errors beforehand and provide struggling learners with the number of errors.
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Could Have, Should Have, Would Have
Could have, should have, would have learned your auxiliary verbs! Use this resource to describe the meaning of each set of words, and then let your kids try to complete the given sentences. Since most people don't actually take the time...
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The 3 Simple Tenses (Plus One)
Go back to the basics with this quick PowerPoint. Review present, past, and future tenses, and introduce present progressive. Provide additional verbs for pupils to conjugate after the presentation.
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Past Tense
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They transform a text from future to past tense. Students read a story and discover it is written in past tense. In groups, students rewrite the verbs in the text to...
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ELD Lesson Plan: Courage
What is true courage? Your class can explore the answer with these three Houghton-Mifflin stories ("Hatchet," "Passage to Freedom," "Climb or Die," and "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle"), which feature courageous characters and...
Pearson
The Simple Present: Affirmative and Negative Statements
The present tense is a helpful skill to review in any language arts classroom. Focusing on statements made in the affirmative and in the negative, a slideshow presentation guides pupils through grammar rules and examples for the simple...
Pearson
Advice: Should, Shouldn't, Ought to, Had Better, and Had Better Not
You shouldn't miss out on an opportunity to review should, shouldn't, ought to, had better, and had better not! Elementary and middle schoolers view a slideshow presentation that focuses on usage rules and examples for these tricky verbs.
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Action Verb Practice Test
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 20 multiple choice questions regarding action verbs. Students may check their answers immediately.
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The Past Tense - Past Progressive
In this past progressive tense worksheet, students practice usage. In this fill in the blank and short answer worksheet, students answer fourteen questions.
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Subject-Verb Recognition: Natural and Inverted Order Sentences
For this subject/verb worksheet, students read about natural and inverted order sentences, then locate the simple subject and simple predicate in a set of 10 sentences.
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Verb Practice
In this verb worksheet, students rewrite sentences using have or has, circle main verbs and underline helping verbs and choose correct helping verbs to complete sentences.
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Finding Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss all the different types of verbs there are to choose from and then find and circle the verbs in nineteen sentences.
BW Walch
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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To Be a Helper: Using the To Be Verbs
In this verb activity, students learn about the state of being verbs. They then use what they learned to answer the 30 questions on the activity. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Linking Verbs: To Be or Not To Be
In this linking verbs worksheet, students read about the proper usage of the verb to be. They underline the verb, to be, in 5 sentences, write the eight words that form the verb, and fill in the blank with the proper verb form in 6...
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Using Verbs and Past Participles
In this verb worksheet, learners read and discuss a selection about verbs and past participles. Then students complete 18 fill in the blank questions.
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Verb Tenses
In this verb tense worksheet, students read about 5 different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive and future. This worksheet contains no questions.
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Verb Tenses
In these verb tenses worksheets, students read about the forms of verb tenses, study examples of the tenses, and answer questions using the tenses.
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The Three Parts of Verbs: Present, Past and Past Participles
In this verbs instructional activity, students underline all the verbs in 6 sentences, list the tense of the verbs on the lines provided, pick 3 action verbs and write the three simple tenses for each one. Students then take those same 3...
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The Present Tense - Present Progressive
In this grammar activity, students learn about using the present progressive tense in sentence writing. They then answer 14 questions using what they just learned.
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Going on--Present Continuous Tense
In this present continuous tense worksheet, students change the tense in 6 sentences to present continuous, rewrite the 6 sentences into 6 questions, and read 7 sentences and underline the sentences which use the present continuous tense...
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Phrasal Verb Gap Fill T-Z
For this ESL phrasal verb worksheet, learners read 12 sentences that have missing verbs. Students select a phrasal verb from the word bank and insert it into each sentence.
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Modal Verbs
In this modal verbs worksheet, students choose the purpose of verbs and fill in the blanks with verbs for sentences. Students complete 2 activities.