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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
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The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of phrase, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase. It also provides a brief description of how phrases...
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Gerund

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a gerund in the context of a sentence.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Using the Possessive Case With Gerunds

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a very clear explanation of a gerund and its noun qualities. This resource explains how to use the possessive case with a gerund. A quiz is provided to check understanding of this concept.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Defines and provides examples of seven different types of phrases. The following types of phrases are included: absolute, appositive, gerund, infinitive, noun, participial, and prepositional. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitive (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay, adding verbals as needed.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay, adding verbals as needed.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Phrase?

For Students 2nd - 8th
List the different types of phrases with examples and a fun exercise to try.
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Languages Online

Languages Online: Time Phrases and Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
Good exercise for practicing time phrases and verb conjugations! A true test of a student's comprehension of time and tenses. Matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and crossword exercises provide excellent practice with gerunds,...
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Use of the Gerund

For Students 6th - 8th
Practice creating the gerund form of words by typing them into boxes within a set of ten sentences. Hints are available if needed, and answers can be checked when the exercise is finished.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory phrases in sentences.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
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University of North Carolina

Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and explains how they are used. This lesson is part 2 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay, adding verbals as needed.
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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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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: Online Writing Support: Verbals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry defines verbals, gerunds, participles, and infinitives; discusses each their different functions in sentences, and provides examples of each.
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The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Verbals: Gerunds

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site defines gerunds as verbal phrases and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to gerund identification.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Parts Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quiz is "a very basic quiz" that covers the various parts of a sentence (clause, gerund, adjective, preposition) in a ten question matching format.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.