BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Root Words
This Skillswise site focuses on root words. Included are a video about why learning how to identify root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
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Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Coordinating Conjunctions
This site offers a good explanation of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Provides several charts identifying various conjunctions and their meanings.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subordination and Coordination Quick Guide
This article focuses on subordination and coordination including, process of linking clauses with punctuation and conjunctions, types of conjunctions, dependent and independent clauses.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"
Check this brief explanation of how to tell the difference between lay, a transitive verb, and lie an intransitive verb, and use them properly in English grammar.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Exercise 4: Colons Quizzes & Tutorial
This resource quizzes on punctuation. Type in the correct punctuation. Then click on "submit answers" to see how you did.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Caesura
This is a glossary entry for the term "Caesura" including a definition and an example.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Circumlocution
This is a glossary entry for the term Circumlocution meaning "a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Diction
This is a glossary entry for the term "Diction" including a definition, an example, and a link to more examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Periphrasis
This is a glossary entry for the term "Periphrasis" including a definition and an example.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Periodic Structure
This is a glossary entry for the term "Periodic Structure" including the definition and an example.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Polysyndeton
This is a glossary entry for the term "Polysyndeton" including a definition and literary examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Syntax
This is a glossary entry for the term "Syntax" including definitions and background for the term.
ACT360 Media
Writing Den Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Prepositions
Grammar list of common prepositions that are linked to examples.
Other
Welsh Course Glossary of Grammatical Terms: Phrases
An online course site aimed at teaching Welsh to native English speakers includes a glossary of grammatical terms. The entry for "phrase" explains how phrases function in sentences.
Other
Write Content Solutions: Correlative Conjunctions
Learn about correlative conjunctions and how to use them while considering agreement and parallel structure.
Other
Esl Blues: Troubleshooting: Nonprogressive Verbs
A troubleshooting list of some commonly mistaken nonprogressive verb forms and thier uses.
Other
Esl Verbs: Present Simple Negative
Examples of some troublesome verb forms using the present simple negative.
Quia
Quia: Conjunctions
This is a 14-question, multiple choice quiz over conjunctions. Students read each statement paying attention to the punctuation around the blank and select the appropriate word.
Other
Western Michigan University: Writing Papers of Literary Analysis
Lots of great guidelines and rules for writing a literary analysis essay. Areas covered include organization, content, style, and documentation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Changing Parts of Speech: Lesson 3
This packet discusses how to change words from one part of speech to another by adding suffixes. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes, L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
TES Global
Tes: Varieties of English
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer will help student reflect on the similarities and difference among formal and informal word choices. Dialect, idiolect, and verb effectiveness are featured.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of Speech
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart reviews the 8 parts of speech. Students are asked to define and identify the parts of speech of specific words. An Activote session provides assessment for the skills presented.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use information from their reading and writing to increase vocabulary and enhance language usage in this flipchart. The use of Activotes is incorporated for assessment. A literary elements...