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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
When reviewing the use of modifiers, this activity could be a useful tool to use. With 20 questions, highlighting a variety of misplaced or dangling modifiers, this worksheet could be a quick and easy way to go over this topic.
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Combining Sentences
In this combining sentences worksheet, students complete a seven question on-line interactive page on joining sentences. Students read the two or three sentences and in the box, type the sentences that have been combined. Students check...
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Grammar
Fourth graders use a word processor document to refine and practice their grammar. They focus on subject and verb agreement and/or run-on sentences. The document can be used as assessment.
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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
What is the passive voice? What is the active voice? Which voice is typically preferred in writing? Use this activity to discuss the different voices. Then, have learners rewrite a series of sentences so that they are in the passive...
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Peer Editing Checklist
Peer editing can be fun and enlightening if it's done effectively. If you're having your class peer edit a general piece of writing (perhaps a personal response or short answer response), this graphic organizer could help. Reviewers look...
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Learning Grammar Through Wordplay
Students use wordplay to investigate the grammatical components of a sentence. They read a New York Times article by analyzing the writer's use of nouns and verbs in the article and then constructing original sentences using those words...
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Subordination/Coordination Worksheet 1
In this grammar learning exercise, students choose the best written sentence in fifteen sets of sentences that sounds grammatically right to them. Students defend their answers.
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Adjective Clauses in Object Position
In this adjective clause worksheet students are given two sentences they must combine using adjective clauses. Students are able to get a hint and check their answers in this interactive worksheet.
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Doing the Housework 1 - Likes & Dislikes
In this sentence structure practice worksheet, students write 10 grammatically correct sentences using the words from 4 different columns of lists.
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Students as “Grammarians”: Discovering Grammatical Rules Lesson on the Causative “Have”
Groups examine a series of examples, identify the common elements, and work together to discover "the causative" grammar rule represented.
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Semantic Gaps and Sources of New Words
The 44 slides in this power point presentation make visual the salient points in a college lecture to develop language and semantic awareness.
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Study Unit 4, Revised: Run-On Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
In this language arts instructional activity, students read 20 sentences and look for errors. Students write R if the sentence is run-on, CS if there is a comma splice, F for a sentence fragment and C for a correct sentence.
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Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
In these commas splices and fused sentences worksheets, students read the sentences that contain commas splices and fused sentences. Students then select from the options the correct way to finish the sentences.
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Sentence Fragments, Run-ons, and Combining Sentences
In this set of grammar worksheets, students identify sentence fragments, revise run-on sentences and fragments, and combine sentences by inserting words and phrases.
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Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
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Say It in French
Eleventh and twelfth graders research and create language-immersion Web-based presentations. They choose a particular theme (family, travel, etc.) to create a webpage on the Internet. They are given a rubric to check their grammar and...
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Conjunctions – Homework
In this combining sentences worksheet, students examine 10 pairs of sentences and rewrite each pair as 1 single sentence using paired conjunctions.
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Conjunctions- Homework
In this combining sentences worksheet, students use paired conjunctions to combine two sentences. There are 10 questions and no examples on the page.
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Fragments and Run-ons
In this grammar worksheet, students determine if a group of words is a complete sentence or a fragment. Students rewrite the fragments to make complete sentences. Students correct run-on sentences by adding appropriate punctuation....
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Fragments
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite and finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with appropriate punctuation.
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Fragments
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite twenty-four fragments into complete sentences by either adding a verb or a subject to each one.
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Fragments
In this grammar learning exercise, students rewrite any of the twelve sentences that are fragments and leave the lines blank if the sentences are correct as is.
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Practice with Using Different Tenses
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate choice of words to complete ten sentences and then combine four sets if sentences so that the second sentence becomes a when clause.
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Grammar Exercises
For this grammar worksheet, students find the words that complete each sentence correctly. The exercises are intended to correct sentence structure and increase proper word usage.