Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Accentuating the Appositive

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Appositives

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on appositives including the definition and the two purposes: to rename a noun or to add extra description. It provides 5 practice sentences for students to identify the appositives with answers and explanation to...
Unit Plan
University of Calgary

Basic Elements of English: Appositive & Absolute Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Sentence Structure (Part of Speech)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on using sentence structure and parts of speech to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It explains how to look for parentheses or commas after unfamiliar words to help determine meaning; it also shows...
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
Unit Plan
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).
Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Composition: Transcendentalism: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Identifying the Different Types of Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice sentence skills by identifying the type of fragment in each short passage: subordinate clause, participle phrase, infinitive phrase, afterthought, lonely verb, or appositive.
Unit Plan
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Handout
Other

Comma Rules

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten detailed comma rules are found on this page.