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Diamante Poem
A diamante poem, a form poem, compares two nouns using adjectives and participles. The activity provided by Busy Teacher Café includes the definitions of these parts of speech, a model for the form, and a sample poem. The simplicity...
BW Walch
Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
Curated OER
Participles
In this recognizing participles in sentences worksheet, students read definitions and examples of participle usage, read statements, identify one or two participles, and write the noun or pronoun they modify. Students write 34 answers.
K12 Reader
Adventures with Alliteration! - Nouns
Create poetry with a worksheet based on alliterative phrases. After reviewing ten nouns, kids add an adjective to each based on the first letter of the noun. They then rewrite five sentences to involve more alliteration.
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a instructional activity that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young...
Curated OER
Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar worksheet, learners learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Participles
In this participles instructional activity, students read about participles and participial phrases, then describe nouns with participles and underline participial phrases in 4 sentences.
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Gerund Recognition Practice
In this gerund practice worksheet, students discover what gerunds are as they read an informative instructional activity. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to identify gerunds and identify the types of nouns they...
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Live And Let Die?
In this live and let die instructional activity, 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...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
Curated OER
Reducing Adjective Clauses Part 2
For 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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Present Participles
In this present participles learning exercise, 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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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...
Road to Grammar
Confusing Words
You bathe in a bath, and you might advise someone by giving advice, but how do you tell the difference between these commonly misused words? This page provides 10 sets of words that sound or look similar, but have different meanings....
Curated OER
Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb learning exercise, students read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence for...
Curated OER
Fears and Phobias: English Skills
In this English skills learning exercise, students respond to 6 multiple choice questions that require them to fill in the blank in 6 sentences with the appropriate words or phrases.
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Adverbs
For this adverbs worksheet, students answer short answer questions about adverbs and identify parts of speech in sentences. Students complete 22 problems.
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Infinitives and Beyond
In this infinitives worksheet, students read a one page information text about infinitives. Students then answer 10 fill in the blank questions about infinitives.
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Verbs Can Become Adjectives
In this verbs and adjectives worksheet, learners read the information about participle adjectives. Students underline the participle adjective in each of 12 sentences. Learners write the main verb it comes from. Example: broken (break).
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Participial Adjectives 2 -ed/-ing
In this participial adjectives worksheet, students choose the correct way to complete the sentences with adjectives either ending in -ed or -ing. Students complete 16 sentences.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Noun, Adjective or Adverb and Present Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives ending in a past participle.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Hyphen in Compound Expression With Noun and Past Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Noun Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a noun phrase in the context of a sentence.