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Passive Voice
The definition of passive voice is given along with tips to identify whether a sentence is written in this form. With one slide for the title and one for the end, the remaining four slides include the definition and a different tip on...
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Past Conditional
This printout could be used to introduce the past conditional to your middle schoolers. The top section describes the past conditional and notes examples. There's a short post-assessment included, as well.
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Practice with Past Perfect
In this practice with past perfect worksheet, 8th graders write a complete sentence for each of the 12 words given using the past perfect tense.
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Commonly Confused Words
Who gave you grammar homework? Or is it whom? Clarify the meanings of several commonly confused words, including affect and effect, among and between, and then and than with a handout and grammar practice activity.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Conjugate a Verb Today!
In this conjugating verbs worksheet, students are given definitions for the infinitive, gerund, and past participle forms. Present, past, and future tenses are also identified and defined.
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Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
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Regular or Irregular: Two Kinds of Verbs
The two kinds of verbs, regular and irregular, are the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a thorough, two-page description of both types, young grammarians fill in the present tense verb given the simple past and past...
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Modal Passive Practice I
In this modal passive practice learning exercise, students create 14 passive voice sentences with the verbs in parentheses and the 14 base sentences provided.
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Grammar Practice: Lie vs. Lay
Are your pupils caught in the lie/lay confusion? Give them extra practice with a learning exercise that defines the difference in meaning, conjugates the words, and gives examples of how the two verbs are used. Learners then practice...
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Passed/Past
In this passed and past worksheet, students choose the correct word either passed or past to complete the sentences. Students choose 5 words in 3 sentences.
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Christmas and New Year Past Tenses Mimes
In this English instructional activity, students, working with a partner, practice acting out one of thirty-three mimes with each other to see if their partner can guess what the other one is miming.
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Present Participles
In this present participles worksheet, students review and discuss what present participles of verbs are and fill in three blanks with the appropriate present participle answer.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present continuous,...
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Identifying the Principle Parts of Irregular Verbs
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write the correct form of irregular verbs. Students identify the principle parts of given verbs. Students answer forty fill in the blank questions.
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Grammar Check
In this grammar worksheet, students answer a variety of grammar questions true or false. Students check their answers against an answer sheet when they complete the assignment.
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The Participial Phrase
Need a review practice exercise for participial phrases? The assumption here is that young grammarians are already familiar with the grammar principles and terms and are ready to show their understanding of participial phrases, and for...
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Monkey and Rabbit Together
Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...
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Conjugate a Verb
In this conjugating verbs worksheet, students review the information for conjugating verbs. Students learn how to conjugate present, past, and future tenses.
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The Passive With Get
In this past participle practice activity, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks with the appropriate verbs. Students also write 5 sentences using the passive voice with "get."
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The Passive
What happens when a painting is stolen? A presentation themed after Edvard Munch's The Scream is a great way to introduce the passive voice to your class.
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Grammar Bellwork
Ding! The bell just went off, and your class is already knee-deep in reviewing prepositional phrases thanks to this PowerPoint. Twenty-six slides cover 25 preposition activities, and a final slide shows a list of prepositions learners...
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Making Use of Gerunds
Don't let the number of slides here overwhelm you! This presentation is packed with accurate, detailed and clear explanations. It has several opportunities for practice, but make sure you run through the presentation a few times to feel...
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Irregular Verbs Crossword Puzzle: On-line Interactive
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with the irregular past tense forms or past participle of 27 verbs.
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The Third Conditional Exercise
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with verbs in the third conditional. Students complete 15 online exercises.