Curated OER
Publishing: A Persuasive Essay
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
Curated OER
The Verb and Adverb Connection
Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
University College London
University College London: Attributive and Predicative Adjectives
This University College London site provides an advanced grammar lesson on adjectives (attributive, postpositive, and predicate adjectives), and includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Identifying Adjectives
In this interactive, students identify adjective in sentences by clicking on them; these include predicate adjectives.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Adjective and Verb Placement
This page focuses on the relationships between adjectives and verbs including predicate adjectives, linking verbs, and participles --verbs used as adjectives such as the smiling baby.
Quia
Quia: Ordering the Planets (Quiz)
In this adjective practice activity, students read a sentence and locate the correct adjective or predicate adjective in the sentence using a drop-down menu.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Romanticism: Parts of the Sentence
This lesson focuses on parts of a sentence including simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, subject compliments, and complements. It also provides examples of each and a...
Other
Sil: Glossary of Linguistic Terms: Predicate Noun
This site briefly defines the predicate noun, provides an example, and lists several sources.
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.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subject Complement
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subject pronoun in the context of a sentence.