Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Garden of Phrases
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....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appositive Phrases & Adverbial & Adjectival Phrases and Clauses
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson discusses the building blocks of phrases and clauses. Notice how the building blocks of phrases follow the parts of speech-nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on....
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Composition: Transcendentalism: Phrases
This lesson focuses on various types of phrases including: Prepositional, Appositive, Participial, Gerund, and Infinitive. It defines each and provides examples; these are followed by a self-assessment identifying the different types of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Participial Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF can be used as an overhead or handout. It shows how sentences can be strengthened when two or more sentences are combined with the use of participial phrases.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Participles Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise over participles and participial phrases.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrase Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, or infinitive phrase.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a participial phrase in the context of a sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Phrases
A screencast lesson [3:38] defining a phrase, introducing different types of phrases, and explaining how to recognize phrases within sentences.
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification
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...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Phrases: Prepositional and Verbal
This site offers links to quizzes/exercises covering Prepositional and Verbal Phrases including participials, gerunds, and infinitives.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrases
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of phrase, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase. It also provides a brief description of how phrases...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase
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
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
A twenty-question quiz asking students to determine if the underlined phrase is an infinitive phrase, an appositive, a gerund phrase, a prepositional phrase, a clause, or a participial phrase.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Elementary Rules of Usage
Passage from William Strunk's "Elements of Style" explains how the placement of a participial phrase determines if it refers to the subject of the sentence. Examples.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Participles Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise over participles and participial phrases.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Participles Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise over Participles and Participial Phrases.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Participles Exercise 4
This 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise is designed to assess students' knowledge of participles and participial phrases.