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Parallelism, Including Correlative Conjunctions and Comparisons
After reading the first reference page about parallel structure using correlative conjunctions, young learners rewrite nine sentences with errors in parallelism. Even the strongest writers in your language arts class could benefit from...
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Sentence Problems
Writing is tough to perfect. Help your class improve their writing skills by studying different sentence problems. This reference guide covers sentence fragments, run-ons, and misplaced modifiers, but that's just to start! There's a...
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Used to/ be used to
For this used to worksheet, students complete the sentences with the correct form of used to, or be used to. Students complete 10 sentences total.
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Weiner Dog Races
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete the sentences about weiner dogs with the appropriate words. Students complete 25 sentences.
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar activity, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the activity. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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The Writing Center: Prepositions
While the focus is applicable to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and higher education, the slides are text heavy (as they were originally designed for higher education). Learners will review rules for using a preposition and how to use...
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Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
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Derbyshire Accent Project 1
Compare the Derbyshire accent to Standard English. There are eight common differences between the two languages for learners to discover. A great activity to start a discussion on the various forms and conventions of Standard English.
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Stating Functions
In this functions worksheet, students choose the correct way to state a function of an item. Students state the function of 12 items total.
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Parallel Structure
For this parallel structure worksheet, students must choose two people they know. Students follow the directions, then using the examples provided, write sentences about each person.
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Prepositions for Place
In this prepositions worksheet, students choose the correct word for the prepositions for place in each sentence. Students complete 40 sentences total.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Verbs
This instructional activity focuses on verbs including functions and categories of verbs, types of verbs, irregular verbs, verb tenses, tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, verbals, and a variety of verb practice activities. It...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Gerunds
This is a very good synopsis of the uses of verb forms called gerunds, participles, and infinitives. Each section has a short practice exercise for which the answers are available.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Gerund?/infinitive?
Fill in the blank with the correct verb form in these 10 fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Participle
Use this site to practice strengthening your knowledge of present participles. Utilize this efficient online worksheet to insert the present participles of the given infinitive. Afterwards, translate the English infinitive into the...
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and explains how they are used. This lesson is part 2 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nominalizations
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...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbals
This entry defines verbals, gerunds, participles, and infinitives; discusses each their different functions in sentences, and provides examples of each.
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: The Writing Center: Verbals
After a discussion and explanation of verbals in general, this site specifically discusses the gerund and the participle (with a link to the infinitive) and also provides examples of each.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...