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San José State University

Old Information Before New Information

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Help your writers streamline their sentence structure with this handout. This resource provides information about sentence organization including definitions and models of the active voice and the passive voice. In addition to reading...
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San José State University

Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
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Curated OER

Past Participles

For Students 6th - 12th
Consider this online resource that includes accurate information about past participles for a reference material for your Spanish language, or as a source of inspiration for your own lesson. Beginning with a definition of past...
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San José State University

Avoiding Nominalization

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Active/passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry explains active and passive voice and how to change active to passive and passive to active in sentences. It provides detailed examples of each.
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Verbs: Passive and Active Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explanations and examples of active and passive voices. Links to additional information, examples and a quiz are also available.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
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University of North Carolina

The Writing Center at Unc Chapel Hill: Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How can you avoid the passive voice in your writing? Explore this website to learn how and why not to use this voice in your writing.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Pattern Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry focuses on sentence pattern transformations including to active/passive voice, cleft, interrogative with yes or no answer, negative, emphasis, and to interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. It includes an explanation and...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Verbs and Verbals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource is a grammar primer page that focuses on verbs and verbals. It provides information and practice for verb tenses, verb forms, active and passive voice, and much more. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes, L.11-12.4b...
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a list of links to entries about sentence structure including elements of sentence construction, sentence types and punctuation, connectors, sentence patterns, pattern transformations, and active/passive voice.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
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University of North Carolina

Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.