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English Grammar and Usage: Short Answer Quiz/Review
This comprehensive assessment tool covers parts of speech, transitivity, punctuation, common usage errors, and verb tense. Your budding grammarians demonstrate knowledge of an array of discrete points of correct usage in English. I'd use...
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Present Simple Tense
In this ESL activity, students will focus on the usage of the verb form "to be." Students will create ten questions, by unscrambling the words provided.
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Verb Forms
Targeting some commonly misused verbs, this worksheet could help students avoid language-related errors. While just a short review of verbs, it could be a way to introduce the importance of proper word usage.
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When Is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words
The New York Times' Learning Network provides great lessons! This one uses articles from the paper to help readers understand homonyms like mail (verb and noun). It also includes an exercise in reading informational text. Links to the...
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Tenses: Verbs in the past, present, and future tenses
Use this presentation with your ELLs, younger learners, or as practice for those finicky 4th graders. Verb tense and usage is covered from present, past, to future. There are several examples provided as well as six verbs to be put into...
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Past Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students will focus on the usage of the verbs "be, "do," and "have." Students will complete 20 questions, by adding the appropriate question tag to the end of each question.
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Ten Days to A+ Grammar: Verbs
What are you doing today? What have you done this week? What will you be doing next month? Focus on verb usage with a series of fill-in-the-black exercises on basic tenses, inappropriate shifts in tense, and active and passive voice.
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When is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words
Act and act, address and address...there are so many words in our dictionary that can function as nouns or verbs. Start this lesson by having your class list as many as they possibly can. When an adequate list presents itself, have your...
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Verb Tenses
While offering a long list of questions involving verb conjugation, this activity would require teacher direction. Some of the instructions aren't clear. The 30 question review of verb usage would be a good review for middle school...
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Eliminate "To Be" Verbs
Students remove to beverbs from their writing. In this verb usage lesson, students write strategies from eliminating to be verbs, then locate the verbs in their writing and eliminate as many as possible.
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Present Simple 'Yes/No' Questions with 'Be'
Teach your class how to use the verb "to be" properly in sentences with this worksheet. For this activity, learners compose questions using the present simple forms of to be such as is, are, and am. The directions are limited, so you...
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Tense Shift
Using the correct verb tense can be difficult for students. This ten-question activity requires students to identify the correct word for use in each sentence.
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Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Intended for learners struggling with or having issues using auxiliary verbs, this activity has them orally compose sentences using one of the provided helping verbs. They will attempt to find patterns in groups of verbs and make class...
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Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
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Action Verbs - They're What You Do
Even though it may seem like a simple concept, identifying and using verbs can be challenging for younger students. Using this presentation, a teacher could provide an easy to understand review of verb usage.
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Verb Tense - Will / Be Going To
In this verb tense usage online/interactive instructional activity, learners use context clues and the verbs in parentheses to add verbs in their correct tenses to complete sentences. Students write 10 answers and check by clicking on...
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Linking Verbs: To Be or Not To Be
In this linking verbs learning exercise, students read about the proper usage of the verb to be. They underline the verb, to be, in 5 sentences, write the eight words that form the verb, and fill in the blank with the proper verb form in...
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The Verb "to be"
In this verb usage worksheet, 4th graders explore the verb "to be". Students are given ten sentences with missing verbs. Students must fill in the proper form of the verb "to be" in the blank.
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English Exercises: Verb To Be
In this English exercises: verb to be worksheet, 4th graders interactively complete 18 sentences using am/is/are, then select the correct verb form to complete 12 sentences, fill in 17 words in a story and answer 8 questions about the...
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Using the Verb "To Be" in Contractions
In this contraction usage worksheet, students make contractions with the verb "to be" in each of 10 sentences. They change the given sentences using the contractions.
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Using Pronouns and Contractions with the Verb "To Be"
In this pronoun and contraction usage worksheet, students read a sentence and complete a second sentence using a pronoun in 4 examples. They read the next 4 sentences and rewrite them using contractions with the proper form of the verb...
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Sentence Tanglers
Correctly writing sentences can be made easier when learners are given a list of common pitfalls. This presentation about subject/verb agreement, word usage, and irregular verbs could help students cement their grammar skills. There are...
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review instructional activity, students practice usage of simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple future tenses. Students answer...
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Fun With -ING Verbs 2
For this recognizing correct verb usage worksheet, students read sentences with two bold faced -ing verbs and identify the verb that makes sense in each sentence. Students underline 15 answers.