Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Parts of the Sentence
This University of Ottawa site overviews the parts of the sentence and then provides a list of links to the various individual parts including subject and predicate, objects and complements, noun, pronoun, phrase, clause, and a review...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations
In this lesson plan, Flotsam, written by David Wiesner, is used as a mentor text. Learners will analyze the author's use of crazy illustrations and word choices. Students will then use a game on this web site where they will click to...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Parts of Speech in Sentences: The Order of Operations
In this comprehensiv learning module students identify the parts of speech by following a certain order until each word in a sentence is labeled. In a variety of exercises, learners practice finding verbs, prepositional phrases,...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions
Come and learn about all types of conjunctions when you visit this educational resource. This site gives a clear definition of the function of a conjunction. Use the "Turn the Page," function to learn more.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Writer's Complex: Grammar Interactive Exercises
This site has an index to interactive exercises testing knowledge of various types of grammar. Some categories offer basic and advanced exercises. Answers are explained.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: The Parts of Speech
This grammar tutorial site offers a thorough discussion of the various parts of speech.
Other
Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
Other
Kryss Tal: Grammar: Introduction to Grammar
This site provides a very good overview of grammar components. Grammar examples and links are provided.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 3: Unit 4: Los Paises Y Las Nacionalidades
In this learning module, students learn how to talk about familiar people and places, actions taking place now, stereotypes, and weather. They will practice using the preterit and imperfect, irregular verbs, articles with adjectives as...
Other
Using English: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
A comprehensive A-Z index of grammar terms with explanations and examples. Each entry provides links to activities and other resources available on the site for more practice on that aspect of grammar. Suggested activities are often...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Indirect Object
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an indirect object in the context of a sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
Room Recess
Room Recess: Parts of Speech
Find the fool's gold by clicking and dragging the correct parts of speech into the box below the mine cars. Good luck!
Other
Blue Book: Hyphens
This site from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation contains seven rules for correctly using the hyphen, along with examples for each of the rules.