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Teaching Appositives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore appositives, phrases that immediately follow the noun they modify, using sentence strips, examples, and collaborative learning. The class works together to identify appositives and use commas to properly punctuate them. Partners...
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K12 Reader

Punctuating Appositives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Where do the commas go? Kids rewrite a series of sentences using commas to set off the appositives in each sentence.
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K12 Reader

What is an Appositive?

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Appositives, those tricky little words and phrases that provide more information about nouns, are the subject of a series of worksheets linked to this resource.
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K12 Reader

Add an Appositive

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Kids demonstrate their understanding of appositives, what they are, where they occur in a sentence, and how they are punctuated, by revising a series of sentences and adding appositives. 
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K12 Reader

Combining Sentences Using Appositives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
If learners only use simple sentence structure, their essays can fall flat. Model how to combine short, choppy sentences with appositives to add interest and flow to individuals' writing.
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K12 Reader

Appositive Hunt

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
How do you find appositives? Why you look for clues, those words or phrases, set off by commas, that tell readers more about nouns. Young grammarians can practice finding them with this worksheet.
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K12 Reader

Appositives at the Beginning or End

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Identifying the appositives that are found at the beginning or the end of sentences is the focus of this worksheet. 
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K12 Reader

Add an Appositive 2

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Do your kids need additional practice with appositives? A straightforward activity prompts them to rewrite a series of sentences, adding appositives to each one.
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Curated OER

Test Review Sheet: Irony, Comma Rules, and Sentence Variety,

For Students 7th - 9th
Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...
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K12 Reader

Identifying Appositives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Young grammarians identify the appositives in a series of sentences and then rewrite each sentence omitting the word or phrase.
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Curated OER

Appositives and Present Participle Phrases (-ing word groups)

For Students 8th - 9th
Combine sentences with the help of this grammar resource! Learn how to combine sentences using appositives and present participle phrases. The first page focuses on combining two sentences and creatine one. On page two, writers practice...
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Curated OER

Phrases as Fragments

For Students 8th - 10th
A sentence needs to have a subject and a verb. Although your kids know this, fragments often sneak their way into essays and homework assignments. Give your class a review session with this assignment. First, have them read the...
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K12 Reader

Appositive Match

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Here's a instructional activity that assess how well kids understand appositives. After matching a series of general nouns with words or phases that tell more about the noun, learners uses the matched set to form sentences with...
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Curated OER

Using Commas with Appositives

For Students 5th - 8th
In this commas and appositives worksheet, students rewrite sentences and include an appositive in the sentence. Students also circle the appositive phrase in sentences.
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Curated OER

Combining Sentences with Appositives

For Students 5th - 7th
In this sentence combining worksheet, learners combine sentences by changing information in a second sentence to an appositive or appositive phrase and adding it to the first sentence. 
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Curated OER

Other Uses for Commas

For Students 6th - 8th
Comma usage, in direct address or in appositives, is the subject of a one-page worksheet that begins with definitions, provides examples, and then asks learners to demonstrate their understanding in sample sentences.
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Curated OER

Interactive Phrase Quiz #2

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify if each underlined phrase in twenty sentences are infinitive, appositive, gerund, prepositional, clause or a participial phrase.
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Curated OER

Interactive Phrase Quiz #1

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined phrase in twenty sentences as infinitive, appositive, gerund, prepositional, clause or a participial phrase.
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Curated OER

Nouns Used as Interrupters Review

For Students 6th - 8th
Need to assess your pupils’ understanding of noun phrases used as appositives, as direct address, or as parenthetical phrases? Use this two-page worksheet to determine their level of mastery of these terms and their punctuation. Your...
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ClearVue

Perfect Punctuation

For Students 5th - 8th
Using the provided "[Punctuation] Rules to Remember" young grammarians punctuate clauses, phrases, participles, and quotations in a series of worksheets.
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Curated OER

Sentence Styles: Lesson Ten

For Teachers 7th - 9th
For a basic overview of phrases (prepositional, absolute, appositive, and participial), use this presentation in your grammar unit. Each slide contains a short explanation and an example, concluding with a slide about relative clauses....
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Curated OER

Commas After Introductions Exercises

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Print or use online to remind learners of  the proper use of commas in introductory phrases. If they are correctly punctuated, they put a C on the line. If there is an error, students put an X and circle the error. They then write 9...
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K20 LEARN

Say It with Style: Syntax and Parallel Structure

For Teachers 9th Standards
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech provides the text for a lesson that introduces scholars to the significance of syntax. After examining several types of clauses, phrases, and structures, class members use the...
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J. Hines, Ed Prgms Intern

Comma Usage

For Students 4th - 10th Standards
Sometimes it feels like young writers just place commas as they please! Ensure that your pupils uses these important punctuation marks properly by requiring them to study the information here and complete the grammar exercise....

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