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Passive Voice Exercises
Strengthen understanding of grammar and syntax with this task. First, grammarians identify the active and passive voices, then they rewrite individual sentences to be in the active voice before manipulating an entire paragraph. Great...
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Excessive Nominalizations, Supplemental Exercises
Dave Carpenter, a reporter for the Washington Post, calls excessive nominalization “verbal gunk” or “the cliché-thick murk of corporatespeak.” Give your young grammarians practice thawing verbs frozen in abstract nouns with an exercise...
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Passive Voice Exercises
What is the difference between the active voice and the passive voice? Focus on the latter with your middle schoolers to help them strengthen their writing. First, they identify which sentences are written in the passive. Then, they...
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Punctuation
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...
Pearson
Contractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise
Practice proper apostrophe use with a grammar worksheet. After reviewing contractions, plural names, and possessive nouns, kids fix and rewrite 10 incorrect sentences.
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Past Tense Exercise
In this online interactive verbs worksheet, students rewrite 25 sentences online changing their present tense verbs to past tense verbs. Students type each sentence in the white boxes provided.
K12 Reader
Simplify with Pronouns
Give your class the task of reducing redundant words by assigning this exercise. Learners use pronouns to replace repeated words in 10 sentences.
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English Exercises: Present Simple Exercises
Here is a blinking, wiggling interactive online practice exercise in which learners adapt 30 sentences to correctly use the present simple tense. They rewrite negative sentences as affirmatives. They may submit their answers to be scored.
Calloway County Schools
Dialogue Rules, Worksheet, and Writing Assignment
Punctuating dialogue properly can be tricky, but your pupils can become punctuation masters with practice. This resource includes an explanatory page that describes the rules of writing dialogue and provides examples. On the second page,...
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Articles Exercise
In this articles worksheet, students read the sentences and insert an article and rewrite the sentence. Students complete 10 sentences total.
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Verb Tenses Exercises
In this past simple and present perfect simple worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in the correct tense, and rewrite sentences by choosing for or since to insert in the sentence. Students complete 10 problems...
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Quantifiers Exercises- So or Such
In this so or such worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with so or such, combine sentences with so...that or such....that, rewrite sentences, and more. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Passive Voice Exercises
For this grammar interactive worksheet, students complete five sentence fill-in's by rewriting each sentence into the text box using the passive voice.
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Passive Voice Exercises
In this passive voice online activity, students identify if each of 5 sentences is in the active or passive voice. They rewrite 5 sentences in the active voice and 5 more in the passive voice. They write the correct passive forms in the...
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Fragments--Exercise 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite each fragment by adding or combining words or punctuation where needed. Students leave each complete sentence alone and leave the lines below each one blank.
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Vocabulary Mistakes Exercise
In this identifying and correcting grammatical mistakes activity, students read incorrectly written sentences and rewrite them correcting the mistakes. Students write 11 answers.
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Two-Word Verb Exercise 4
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences using an expression different from the two-word verb phrase in each sentence.
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Quantifier Exercises
In this quantifiers online interactive learning exercise, students complete 12 sentences by supplying the appropriate adjective that completes each one grammatically correct. Students rewrite 10 sentences using negative quantifiers....
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The Subject and Object Pronoun Exercise
In this recognizing subject and object pronoun usage activity, students review singular and plural object pronouns in sentences, read sentences with proper and common nouns, and replace them with subject and object pronouns. Students...
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The Secret Garden - Proper Nouns
Help your class master proper nouns with a themed worksheet. As they read Frances Hodgson Burnett's well-known novel The Secret Garden, have pupils practice identifying proper nouns with plot points from the story. They underline...
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The Secret Garden - Synonyms
Encourage learners to think about the relationship between similar words. In the first part of the worksheet, class members alter descriptions of characters in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden by coming up with synonyms....
Scholastic
Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Research Skills and Exercises
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite five sentences to eliminate the striking or catchy language and rewrite three student paraphrases to make each one grammatically correct.