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Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 1)
These exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Conjugate verbs to match the subject. Answers may be checked and corrected.
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Spanish Language & Culture: Present Subjunctive Forms (Part 3)
Completion of these twenty-four clauses provides an extensive review of regular and irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the present subjunctive tense. Verb infinitives are provided that need to be conjugated in the...
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Study Spanish: Preterite Part 3
An online introduction to stem-changing verbs in the preterite tense. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of these conjugations.
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Howto Spell: Y to I Spelling Rule
Watch a video which explains the "Y to I" spelling rule, or read the script below the video. Then test your knowledge with the word search at the bottom of the page.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Word Unscramble
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The order of the letters in each word is changed, and you must unscramble them one at a time. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
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Spanish Language & Culture: El Presente
This Spanish grammar exercise provides excellent practice conjugating verbs in the present indicative tense. Fifty-six different infinitives give the student plenty of practice with regular, irregular, and stem-changing conjugations. A...
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Spanish Language & Culture: Imperfect Subjunctive
This Spanish grammar exercise provides excellent practice conjugating verbs in the past subjunctive tense in verb charts. Fifty different infinitives give the student plenty of practice with conjugations of the imperfect subjunctive....
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Spanish Language & Culture: Past Subjunctive Si Clauses
This Spanish grammar exercise provides adequate practice conjugating verbs in the conditional tense and in the past subjunctive in sentences that contain "if" clauses. Answers may be checked and corrected.
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Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Noun Clauses #4
This exercise practices the present subjunctive with verbs of influence: aconsejar, decir, insistir, mandar, necesitar, pedir, preferir, prohibir, querer, recomendar, rogar, and sugerir. An English translation is provided as a foundation...
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Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive With Commands
Hear a "tu" command and complete the indirect command with the correct form of the verb in the present subjunctive. Answers may be checked and corrected.
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Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Adverb Clauses (Part 2)
Students practice using the present subjunctive, the present indicative, or the infinitive after certain conjunctions. This exercise helps fortify the use of the subjunctive in adverbial clauses. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Present Progressive
This explanation of the present progressive tense includes stem-changing present participles and those that involve spelling changes. Examples illustrate this grammar principle and a test assesses student mastery of the content.
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Spelling It Right: Spelling It Right: Adding a Suffix to Words Ending in Y
This is a reference page explaining the rules for adding a suffix to words ending in the letter Y.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Formal Commands (Part 1)
Practice changing 25 infinitives to affirmative and negative usted and ustedes commands. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular formal commands are included in this Colby College exercise.
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Spanish Language & Culture: Formal Commands (Part 2)
Practice changing 16 reflexive verb infinitives to affirmative and negative usted and ustedes commands. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular formal commands are included in this exercise.
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Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 2)
Practice answering questions with affirmative and negative tu commands and direct and indirect object pronouns. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular command forms are included in this exercise.
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Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 3)
Practice answering questions with negative tu commands, reflexive pronouns, and direct and indirect object pronouns. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular command forms are included in this exercise.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Dictionaries and Meanings
Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words,...
History Tools
History Tools: Wm. Ellery Channing, Excerpts From Unitarian Christianity [Pdf]
Historical writing by William Ellery Channing critiquing Calvinism and espousing the Unitarian Christianity Movement. Paragraph numbers have been added and some spelling has been modernized.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables #3
Students read sentences looking at the two words in all caps, including spelling. They must decide what, if anything, needs to be changed, and select the correct answer. Links are also provided to a tutorial, quizzes, and "Guide to...
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Lancashire Schools: Literacy: Plural "Y" Endings
This site offers a self-scoring quiz changing singular words that end in Y to plurals. Students type in the correct spelling of the plural.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables #5
In this quiz, students are to read sentences looking at the two words in all caps including their spellings. They must decide what, if anything, needs to be changed, and select the correct answer. Links are also provided for a tutorial,...
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Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 1)
Practice forming affirmative and negative tu commands with reflexive pronouns in this Spanish tutorial. Infinitives are provided as cues for the exercise as well as stem-changers, spelling changes, and regular and irregular command forms.