Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase
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
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Phrase?
List the different types of phrases with examples and a fun exercise to try.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Participles and Gerunds Exercise 1
This is a 15-question, self-graded quiz/exercise to assess students' ability to distinguish between participles and gerunds.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Participles and Gerunds Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise to assess students' ability to distinguish between participles and gerunds.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Participles and Gerunds Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise to assess students' ability to distinguish between participles and gerunds.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Participles and Gerunds Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise to assess students' ability to distinguish between participles and gerunds.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Participles and Gerunds Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-graded quiz/exercise for students' ability to distinguish between participles and gerunds.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Gerunds
This is a very good synopsis of the uses of verb forms called gerunds, participles, and infinitives. Each section has a short practice exercise for which the answers are available.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
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.
Languages Online
Languages Online: Time Phrases and Verbs
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,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence
[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...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Gerund
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a gerund in the context of a sentence.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using the Possessive Case With Gerunds
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Phrases
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory phrases in sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbals: Gerunds
This site defines gerunds as verbal phrases and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to gerund identification.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Use of the Gerund
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitive (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay, adding verbals as needed.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay, adding verbals as needed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nominalizations
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay, adding verbals as needed.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are
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,"...