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Using Verbs and Past Participles
For this verb worksheet, students read and discuss a selection about verbs and past participles. Then students complete 18 fill in the blank questions.
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Coping with Verbs
First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.
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Introduction to Verbs
Ninth graders, while practicing writing, illustrate how verbs change forms both according to subject and time frame. They drill on verbs of all forms and brainstorm different ways to incorporate them into their writing in groups.
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Understanding Simple Present Tense Verbs Using the Song 'Penny Lane"
For this music and grammar worksheet, students use the song, "Penny Lane" by the Beatles, to examine the use of simple present tense verbs. They listen to the song before completing 4 short answer questions. They record present tense...
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Verbs
Young scholars play a game. In this grammar instructional activity, students play charades where they must act out a verb that has been written on a piece of paper.
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Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
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Verbs
In this verbs activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict actions. Students match these to the verbs that describe each picture.
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Passive Trouble for Halloween
For this passive and active verbs worksheet, students read the instructions and study the examples for how to change a sentence with an active verb to one with a passive. Students change 10 active sentences about Halloween to the passive.
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Verbs
Ninth graders define the term 'verb', differentiate between action and linking verbs, and distinguish between active and passive voice. Use this activity to examine the effect of passive and active voice in writing.
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Grammar Worksheet: Lie vs. Lay
To do something to someone or something or not to do something to someone. That is the question. And it is the source of the confusion between lie and lay. The strength of this worksheet is in the clear, cogent explanation for the...
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Los Verbos Reflexivos en Espanol
Wow! This presentation is a great resource to supplement your lesson on Spanish reflexive verbs. It contains eleven detailed and organized slides with explanations, examples, and practice questions.
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Subject and Predicate
The identification of the subject and predicate of a sentence is the focus of this grammatical PowerPoint. Viewers are also coached on the fact that the subject and verb in a sentence must "agree" in number. For example, a plural subject...
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Active/Passive Voice Recognition Practice
Practice the active and the passive voice with this worksheet. Print this sheet for your class, and they can practice identifying the verb and deciding whether the verb is in the active or passive tense.
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Eliminate "To Be" Verbs
Students remove to beverbs from their writing. In this verb usage lesson, students write strategies from eliminating to be verbs, then locate the verbs in their writing and eliminate as many as possible.
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Topic Language- "what Do I Do?" -exploring Verbs
In this verb activity, 3rd graders read a selection on verbs and a short story. Students circle all of the verbs in the short story and sort them into a graphic organizer using present, past and future tense.
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Verbs To Fill in the Blanks
In this recognizing verbs worksheet, students read incomplete sentences for context and tense clues and choose the correct verbs to complete the sentences. Students fill in five blanks.
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Verbs: Present and Past Tenses
For this recognizing verbs worksheet, students read sentences for context and tense clues, choose from three verbs, and fill in the blanks with the correct verbs. Students complete five sentences.
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Comparative & Superlative Practice II
Grammar practice gets good, better, and best! Choose when to use comparative and superlative forms of various adverbs in 12 sentences. Examples at the top of the page guide kids to select the best form based on how many people or items...
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Scene Writing: Literacy and Playwriting
Drama is ever-present in our daily lives and eloquently depicted on stage. Middle schoolers practice writing scenes based on different prompts and frameworks, and then perform those creative scenes for their classmates. The...
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Verbs
In this verbs worksheet, students read about verbs, then underline verbs in a set of 9 sentences and write 2 action verbs given people might do. Students then complete 2 alphabetical order activities.
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The Past Tense - Past Progressive
In this past progressive tense instructional activity, students practice usage. In this fill in the blank and short answer instructional activity, students answer fourteen questions.
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Conventions: Verbs
Fifth graders study verbs. In this grammar lesson, 5th graders access the web site known as www.wideworldofverbs.com reviewing the verbs in each sentence and write five sentences using the correct usage of verbs.
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Can and Can't
In this action verbs instructional activity, students make a list of 8 things they can do on one side and a list of 8 things they can't do the other side of the instructional activity.
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Understanding and Identifying Verbs
Students practice identifying the subject and verbs in sentences. In this verb lesson, students can explain the difference between active and passive verbs. Students complete a grade appropriate work sheet.