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The Writing Center: Prepositions

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
While the focus is applicable to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and higher education, the slides are text heavy (as they were originally designed for higher education). Learners will review rules for using a preposition and how to use...
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Spanish Parts of Speech (Part 1)

For Students 6th - 12th
Check out this overview of the parts of speech that includes English and Spanish examples. Each part of speech is highlighted in a different color for clarity. There is information on each part of speech here, and you or your pupils can...
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Find the Error 51

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this grammar activity, students read a short clipping from a newspaper article. Students locate a mistake in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, or spelling.
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Parts of Speech- Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined words in twenty sentences as one of the following parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, conjunction or preposition.
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Synonyms and Antonyms

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about synonyms and antonyms. They then use what they learned to answer 30 questions. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Bad or Badly: A Troublesome Pair

For Students 5th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about the differences between adverbs and adjectives. They learn when to use "bad", an adjective, and when to use "badly", an adverb. Students then fill in the blanks in the 5 sentences using...
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Other Pronoun Rules

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this pronoun rules worksheet, students learn information about pronouns and then identify the correct pronoun from two options in a sentence. Students also identify incorrect pronouns, correct sentences with the wrong pronoun, and...
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Live And Let Die?

For Students 7th - 10th
In this live and let die worksheet, students, with a partner, complete a verb tense table on the verb die, fill in nine sentences with nine phrases associated with death and discuss ten questions dealing with suicide and crimes.
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Few and Less: A Confusing Pair

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn the difference between the words "few" and "less" as well as adverbs and adjectives. They then answer the 14 questions on the page by inserting either few/fewer or less in the blank.
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Prepositions

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar activity, students learn about using prepositions in sentence writing. They then answer 12 questions regarding prepositions. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Find the Error 53

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this grammar activity, students read a paragraph about a sit-com. Students locate mistakes in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, and spelling.
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Find the Error 17

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this grammar worksheet, learners read a paragraph about British breakfast foods. Students locate mistakes in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, and spelling.
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Reducing Adjective Clauses Part 2

For Students 7th - 8th
In this reducing adjective clauses part 2 worksheet, students read the explanation for shortening a relative (adjective) clause with an active voice verb, then interactively completes 10 sentences by reducing the modifying clause to a...
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Infinitives

For Students 9th
For this grammar worksheet, 9th graders focus on the usage of infinitives.  Students read 25 sentences and identify and underline the infinitves in each.
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Course vs. Coarse

For Students Higher Ed
In this English grammar learning exercise, students understand the differences between the usage of the words "course" and "coarse." Students read the definition of each and the given examples before taking the online interactive...
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Emphatic Adjectives

For Students 6th - 12th
Ensure that your learners have a wonderful, fabulous, astonishing, outstanding knowledge of adjectives. This resource focuses in particular on strong adjectives. Included are a few pages of explanation and instruction, two exercises, and...
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Articles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn how to use articles in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 10 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page.
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Language Arts Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students add "ing" to words, match singulars with plurals, add appropriate prefixes to words, identify antonyms and synonyms, and complete a variety of additional activities.
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss and analyze the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms from a clear context and develop the skill of noticing word stress, weak forms of auxiliaries.
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Sentence Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Have your class play this grammar game to practice identifying parts of speech. Focusing on punctuation, adjectives, nouns, verbs, and more, learners take a sentence and change it according to the prompts provided.
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Grammar: Adjective Clauses

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice using subject and object pronouns in adjective clauses.
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Adverbs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify the function of adverbs and use them in sentences. They discuss how adverbs answer when, how, how often, and where, and identify the nouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs in sentences. Students then act...
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Learning to Use Indefinite Pronouns

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn to use indefinite pronouns in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 8 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Show! Don't Tell!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a descriptive paragraph. In this writing lesson, students define elaboration and discuss the characteristics of an elaborate paragraph. Students write a paragraph that contains vivid adjectives, strong verbs and exact nouns.