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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on modifiers; it defines them and offers things to remember about them. It also provides three sentences for student practice in identifying them followed by answers and explanations.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Verbals are verbs disguised as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Verbals come in three forms: gerunds, infinitives, and participles. Gerunds are verbs that end in "-ing" and function as nouns. Participles end in "-ing," "-ed," "-d," "-t,"...
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Towson University

Towson University: Self Teaching Unit: Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on misplaced modifiers including adjectives, adverbs, phrases, and clauses and dangling modifiers. It discusses each, provides examples, explains how to correct them, and offers links to exercises and a post-quiz.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 3 [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with map directions. Level 3 adjectives and adverbs are also emphasized on this assessment.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 9.1: Parts of Speech

For Students 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn about nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs through explanations and examples. Also learn to distinguish between words and phrases and between form and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site a learner can click through a slide presentation for the definition and examples of each of the eight parts of speech, and read a poem to increase memory and understanding. Then view a series of video lessons on nouns...
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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's Going on and Where Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students write a descriptive essay about an historical event as seen through the eyes of an alien from a different planet and time. The lesson encourages the use of colorful and exciting adjectives, adverbs, and verbs in...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Nominalizations

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial begins with a slide show which defines nominalizations; gives examples of adjectives and adverbs changed into nouns, gerunds, and infinitives. Practice with simplifying nominalizations is provided. It also offers a YouTube...
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Other

Efl: Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for EFL students, this tutorial also provides a good opportunity for anyone to test understanding of comparatives and superlatives.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
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Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
Students and teachers can find quizzes, vocabulary word search puzzles and self-tests for a variety of grammar topics: adjectives, adverbs, am -is or are, can and could, colors, countries and languages, and more. You can also find...
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Other

Spanish Comparatives and Superlative Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
Side by side English to Spanish translations of comparatives and/or superlatives of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs. Other English expressions that may be confused with Spanish comparatives are also translated. Excellent reference...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech using 6 slideshow presentations. The first lists the 8 parts of speech and their functions; the next five discuss nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions individually. These...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech; it provides 6 short slideshows: the first is an overview of parts of speech, the other 5 are for each of the following parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions;...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: What Are Modifiers? How to Use Them Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on modifiers including what modifiers are -- adjectives, adverbs, and descriptive phrases and clauses; misplaced modifiers and how to correct them; and limiting modifiers and how to use them. Examples are provided.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Parts of Speech in Sentences: The Order of Operations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this comprehensiv learning module students identify the parts of speech by following a certain order until each word in a sentence is labeled. In a variety of exercises, learners practice finding verbs, prepositional phrases,...
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Bad or Badly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Not only does this tutorial give you instructionon the correct usage of "bad" and "badly," it also gives a general review of the role of adjectives and adverbs. After reading through the examples, there is a brief quiz to check your...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Comparatives and Superlatives

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the difference between the comparative and superlative degress of adjectives and how to use them. Take the brief quiz to check your understanding.
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University of Texas at Austin

Tex's French Grammar: Bon/meilleur vs. Bien/mieux

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a concise and clear presentation of bon/bien, meillure/mieux, aussi bon/aussi bien etc. Contains usage examples and interactive practice exercises (written and audio).
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Qualifiers /Intensifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry defines qualifiers/intensifiers (very, too, so, quite, rather), explains their purpose, and provides examples.
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Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Double Comparatives and Superlatives

For Students 9th - 10th
This page focuses on forming comparatives and superlatives and the misuse of double comparisons and superlatives such as "most fastest."

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