[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will show you how to transform your writing from typical to excellent through the proper construction of compelling phrases and clauses.L.9-10.1b Phrases/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....

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.

This section of an online grammar guide provides definitions, examples, and an interactive exercise on identifying appositive and absolute phrases. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses

This slideshow lesson focuses on appositives; it defines them, explains how to identify them, and shows how to punctuate them. It also explains that appositives cannot stand alone and can be removed from the sentence without affecting...

This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of 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...

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 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.

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.

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.

The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.

The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.

The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.

Practice sentence skills by identifying the type of fragment in each short passage: subordinate clause, participle phrase, infinitive phrase, afterthought, lonely verb, or appositive.

Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.

Ten detailed comma rules are found on this page.

This lesson introduces the em dash and explains when and how it is used. An audio version is provided [1:28], and the lesson is followed by a three-question quiz to check for understanding. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "The Em Dash."

This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.

This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.