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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a non-graded verb practice including categorizing, agreement, and non-finite clauses.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Using the Verb "Include" to Preface a List

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this tutorial to learn when to use "include" and when to use a form of the verb "to be" when writing a list. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson. You will be introduced to a number of common affixes and roots; play games to practice matching affixes to their meanings; read a passage and use your...
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Vocabulary.com

Latin Root "Sub" Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 10 words that contain "sub", a prefix that means "under" or "below", in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English? At first, the answer seems obvious- there's past, present, and future. Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called grammatical aspect, each of those time...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
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Other

Verb Rules: Must and Have To

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The verbs "must" and "have to" are often troublesome. This site gives instructions for their proper use.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Root Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Identifying Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to identify the verb!
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Verb Aspect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose the simple aspect of the verb!
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Progressive Perfect Verb Aspect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If an action has been ongoing for some time, or was once ongoing and has since completed, we say it's in the progressive perfect aspect! Test your knowledge of this grammatical aspect.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Progressive Verb Aspect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When something is ongoing, we say that it's in the 'progressive' or 'continuous' aspect. Test your knowledge of this grammatical aspect!
Handout
Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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University College London

University College London: Nice Properties of Auxiliaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has information on the four properties of auxiliary verbs.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Confusing Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eighty-two questions to test your knowledge of verbs whose meanings are often confused. You choose the correct answer and, if you're correct, the next question is displayed. If you're wrong, the website lets you know immediately by...
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Prepositions Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides a ten question preposition practice activity. Students are asked to fill in the missing preposition in a complete sentence. Answers are provided without detailed explanations.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar list of common prepositions that are linked to examples.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Identifying Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Identifying and understanding verbs is discussed at this site. Word function, action verbs, linking verbs, and verbs that have more than one part are included.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Future Tense

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
General discussion of how future tense verbs work in language with more specific information about English, Latin, French, and Spanish. Includes examples throughout and some links to additional information near the bottom.
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Other

Weber State University: Misused Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fun look at the wrong way to use the English language; includes many examples.