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The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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The Passive With Get
For this past participle practice worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks with the appropriate verbs. Students also write 5 sentences using the passive voice with "get."
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Introduction to Computers and Understanding Commands
Middle schoolers identify the different parts of a sentence. They practice conjugating verbs. They follow the commands of the teacher when using the computer.
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Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #2
High schoolers create their own dialogue using vocabulary associated with the healthcare industry. They practice using different tenses of verbs. They also respond to questions about their health.
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Mustn't or Don't Have To
In this mustn't or don't have to worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the words mustn't or don't have to. Students complete 10 sentences total.
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Match Questions to Answers
In this matching questions to answers instructional activity, students select the answers to given questions, clicking on their choice. Score can be checked online.
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Controlled Narrative Writing
Students examine a short story and add possible adjectives. They re-read the story and add adverbs. They also add other information to make the story interesting.
Curated OER
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Students read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
Curated OER
Dear Darla
Students write a letter. In this language arts lesson, students play the role of an advice column journalist. Students respond to a letter asking for advice.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs)
Students type the past tense of verbs in parentheses into the boxes provided throughout the paragraph and then check answers.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Simple Past Tense
An explanation with examples of simple past verb tense in sentences.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs
This practice quiz asks students to type the simple past tense of given regular and irregular verbs into boxes provided throughout a paragraph.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Simple Past Irregular Verbs
In this exercise students, select the past correct past tense of irregular verbs. Questions can be viewed all at once, or one at a time.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs
Often when we write the past tense of a regular verb, we add an "-ed" after the last letter. Irregular verbs do not follow this rule! The simple past and simple participle of irregular verbs can end in a variety of ways with no...
City University of New York
City University of New York: E Recource Center: Grammar Tutorials: Verb Tense
The tutorial contains five exercises addressing correct use of verb tenses. Each exercise contains an explanation of the grammar concept and then an opportunity for students to practice. Students can download pdf of each explanation. The...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Past Tense and Its Types
Defines past tense and provides examples of the different types.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Simple Past: Regular Verbs 1
In this 10-question exercise, students select the past tense of regular verbs. View questions individually or all at once.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sequence of Verb Tenses
This grammar page teaches the sequence of verbs, including simple present and past, present and past perfect, future, future perfect, and infinitive verbs. Includes chart and examples. L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Conjugation Grammar Rules
This page explains verb conjugations including persons: first, second, and third person; number: singular and plural; and tenses: present, past, and future and simple, continuous, and perfect. It provides examples of verb conjugations.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Verb Tenses
Writing center guide to verb tenses that dicusses present, present continuous, past, past continuous, future, future continuous, present perfect, and past perfect.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs Crossword Puzzle
Online crossword from the Capital Community College that reviews simple past tense and past participles of irregular verbs. Options for seeing hints and doing over the incorrect answers.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Past Simple Quiz
Choose the correct past simple tense verb to complete each of the ten sentences in this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.