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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Appositives

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation appositives with examples and punctuation rules.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
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University of Calgary

Basic Elements of English: Appositive & Absolute Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide provides definitions, examples, and an interactive exercise on identifying appositive and absolute phrases. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Colon:independent Clause & List, Quote, Appositive, Idea

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the use of a colon when an independent clause is followed by a closely-related dependent clause that clarifies or gives more information about the independent clause. Examples are show with lists, quotes, appositives,...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Garden of Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial provides rules, explanations, and examples for noun phrases, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, absolute phrases, gerund phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Also includes an interactive quiz....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Defines and provides examples of seven different types of phrases. The following types of phrases are included: absolute, appositive, gerund, infinitive, noun, participial, and prepositional. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
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English Plus+

English Plus: Colons With Formal Appositives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The use of the colon with formal appositives is explained, with examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Identifying the Different Types of Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice sentence skills by identifying the type of fragment in each short passage: subordinate clause, participle phrase, infinitive phrase, afterthought, lonely verb, or appositive.
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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).
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Appositive

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and examples about an appositive, what it is and how to use it correctly.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Dashes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the rules for the use of dashes. Explains what a dash is, what it does, and the three formats of dashes (em, en, and the double hyphen). Examples are provided with the "dash" used in different contexts.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
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University of Calgary

The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide provides a definition and examples of phrases, as well as information and an interactive exercise on distinguishing types of phrases and clauses. It offers links to various types of phrases and...
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.
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The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Punctuation: Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site features a list of eleven simple rules for comma usage. Come and sharpen your grammar skills when you visit this educational resource.
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English Plus+

English Plus: Semicolons and Colons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules for using semicolons and colons. Examples include semicolons with clauses, semicolons with lists, colons with quotes, colons with lists, and colons with appositives. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause