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What's in a Sentence? Getting to Know the Parts of Speech
What a kick! After examining the definitions and looking at examples of the different parts of speech, partners work together on a retelling of a famous nursery rhyme. For each sentence, they must select a word that matches the part of...
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Various 98--Action Verbs in Sentences Quiz
In this sentence completion quiz, students choose the appropriate action verb to use in the ten given sentences. This is an interactive, multiple choice worksheet.
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Parts of Speech and Sentence Types Test
Test students' knowledge of parts of speech and sentence types with this 37 question multiple choice and matching quiz. Multiple choice questions provide examples that must be labeled as the correct part of speech or sentence type. The...
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Actions in Progress
English language learners will find this practice particularly helpful. They match the sentences to their visual depiction. In the second exercise, they fill in the missing words. They use the sentences in the first activity to discover...
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Action Verbs
In this recognizing correct usage of action words in sentences worksheet, students read sentences and identify the sentences that use the correct subject verb agreement. Students identify 10 answers.
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Sentence Fragments
Work on sentence fragments with your class using this handout and brief exercise. This resource, which could be used as a reference sheet for learners, goes into detail about complete sentences and the different errors that cause...
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Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs
Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward instructional activity on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the...
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Identifying Parts Of Speech
This resource provides a brief but valuable discussion of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In addition to defining each term and including an example, this worksheet reminds students that a word's part of speech depends on how it is...
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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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The Parts of Speech
Identify action verbs and decide whether they are transitive or intransitive. After labeling fourteen sentences and their verbs, learners move on to distinguish action verbs from linking verbs in twenty additional sentences. The...
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Parts of a Sentence
In this recognizing the naming part and action part in sentences instructional activity, students use context clues to identify the subjects and predicates in sentences. Students answer 10 questions.
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Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements
What sets this worksheet apart are the clear, concise explanations for some rather complex grammatical terms. Object complements, subject complements, transitive and intransitive verbs, and direct and indirect objects are all carefully...
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Parts of Speech Vocabulary Fill Puzzle
In this parts of speech worksheet, students read 15 crossword puzzle clues and fill in the missing letters in the crossword puzzle boxes. Some of the letters for each answer are provided as clues, and students must fill in the missing...
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Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
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Help! Action Verbs and Their Helpers
In this grammar learning exercise, students learn about using action verbs and their helpers in sentence writing. They then answer the 6 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Parts of Speech--Verbs
Verbs are the focus of this language arts instructional activity. Students underline the verbs, or verb phrases, in 7 sentences, then make 2 original sentences with verbs in them. A good instructional activity!
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Action and Linking Verbs
In this recognizing action verbs and linking verbs in sentences worksheet, students read statements, identify the verbs, and label them either action or linking verbs. Students write 15 answers.
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Action Verbs
In this action verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the action verbs given to them. Students complete 18 sentences.
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Verbs of Action
In this ESL verbs of actions learning exercise, students will analyze the activities pictured. Students will choose the correct verb that is depicted in each of the ten photographs.
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Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
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Language Arts Review First Grade: Sentence Construction
In this language arts review first grade: sentence construction activity, 1st graders answer 15 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about sentences.
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Begin & Start
Complete the sentences with "begin" or start" in this multiple-choice worksheet. After a lesson on context clues in your ESL class, use this activity as a class assignment to reinforce their skills, or as a quiz to assess their learning.
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Look, See & Watch
Help your ESL students learn the difference between "look," "see," and "watch" with this practice worksheet. Ten questions provide sentences for English learners to complete, as well as the multiple choice options. The verbs are...
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Commas Worksheet (Coordinate Adjectives L.7.2a Part 1)
Haven't seen enough commas lately? Make it clear to your learners that commas should be used between coordinate adjectives. They can practice their new knowledge with this worksheet, which is made up of eight sentences to examine and...