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.
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....
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.
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
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Participles Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise over participles and participial 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.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about gerunds, participles, and infinitives in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Using Gerunds and Gerund Phrases, Using Participles...
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Participles Exercise 5
This 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise is designed to assess students' knowledge of participles and participial phrases.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas With Non Essential Elements
This tutorial focuses on the use of commas in nonessential elements whether they are words, phrases, or clauses. Links to practice exercises are provided.
Other
Western Grammar: Module 2: Advanced Sentence Structure
Online grammar textbook explaining sentence structure provides definitions of different types of subordinate clauses and exercises related to this topic. There is also information on phrases and other components of sentences.