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
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.
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...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: The Writing Center: Verbals
After a discussion and explanation of verbals in general, this site specifically discusses the gerund and the participle (with a link to the infinitive) and also provides examples of each.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Verbs
This lesson focuses on verbs including functions and categories of verbs, types of verbs, irregular verbs, verb tenses, tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, verbals, and a variety of verb practice activities. It offers several...
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: 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...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbals
This entry defines verbals, gerunds, participles, and infinitives; discusses each their different functions in sentences, and provides examples of each.
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Gerund?/infinitive?
Fill in the blank with the correct verb form in these 10 fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrase Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, or infinitive phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbal Practice Exercise
This is a twenty-question worksheet with multiple choice answers about identifying the correct type of verbal that is used in a sentence (gerund, participle, infinitive). Answers are available through a link at the bottom.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Phrases
A screencast lesson [3:38] defining a phrase, introducing different types of phrases, and explaining how to recognize phrases within sentences.
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification
This section of an online grammar guide provides a definition and examples of phrases, as well as information and an interactive exercise on distinguishing types of phrases and clauses. It offers links to various types of phrases and...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.
Other
Using english.com: English Grammar Quizzes & Worksheets
A nice treasure trove of printable grammar worksheets organized by proficiency level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Emphasis is on parts of speech but you'll also find some that focus on common spelling issues and vocabulary...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrases
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...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Phrase?
List the different types of phrases with examples and a fun exercise to try.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Adding Sparks to Sentence Beginnings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews several ways to begin a sentence and provides examples, review, and an assessment.
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