Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, progressive, and perfective.

This articles discusses the use of grammar games to help students understand verbs; it describes several verb activities and games including verb activities with a word wall, Power Verbs, Nicky Noun and Victor Verb, and Fortune Cookie...

Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, past participle, present participle, simple, continuous, perfect, and continuous perfect.

This articles discusses the importance of teaching verbs and provides tips on creating verb lessons including the definition of verbs and verb tenses.

Learn about present tense and its types.

Defines past tense and provides examples of the different types.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students...

Learn about future tense and its types.

Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, active, passive, normal, intensive, continuous, perfect, and continuous perfect.

Notes about verb tense, when it should and should not be changed, and what tense is best to use when writing about literature.

This article discusses what grammar first graders need to know including how to count out syllables by clapping, what nouns and verbs are and the differences between them, and basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object).

Notes on collective nouns and how to use correct verbs and pronouns to agree with them.

This PDF demonstrates how to determine the subject and the verb in sentences with prepositional phrases and provides a list of the most common prepositions used in prepositional phrases.

An explanation of the most common grammatical errors that Portuguese speakers are likely to make in English. Each error is analyzed, with special attention to mistakes Portuguese speakers typically make when translating their language's...

This article focuses on the grammar and punctuation that third graders need to learn including the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, and prepositions), punctuation marks (question mark, exclamation points, and periods), and the...

This article focuses on the grammar of 4th grade including the beginning of more adult conversation, a grammar review from previous grades, more irregular verbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and improved sentence structure.

This article focuses on 7th-grade grammar which requires having a greater understanding of the grammar learned previously and using the parts together. This includes understanding the parts of speech, pronouns, clauses, and punctuation;...

The tense relationship between USA and Cuba is a complicated one. This article addresses ten topics including the current status between the countries, public opinion, main issues in conflict, role of Raul Castro, why Cuba is on world...

Twitter has taken the world by storm, even made its name a verb, but are they challenged late in the game to try making money from the service? This article examines this question in depth.

"Effect" and "affect" are tricky words to keep straight. Each can be used as a noun or a verb, depending on the meaning of the sentence. This tutorial gives clear examples and explanations on the use of these two words. A brief quiz...

Read about the tense 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that nearly resulted in nuclear war.

This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.

Describes the 8 parts of speech with examples.