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English Tenses and Verb Forms
Distinguish between passive and active voice with a grammar activity. It contains three exercises in which pupils turn direct speech into indirect speech and create new sentences using passive voice.
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Horsing around with Verbs
Students identify verbs in complete sentences. In this grammar and locomotor skill instructional activity, students rotate between ten stations, each with a designated sentence to be read. Students identify the action verb in the...
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A Good Time To Be Away: Past Tense Passive
In this past tense passives worksheet, students read the sentences and select the correct form of the verb to complete each one. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Intended for learners struggling with or having issues using auxiliary verbs, this activity has them orally compose sentences using one of the provided helping verbs. They will attempt to find patterns in groups of verbs and make class...
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Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Readers of all ages correctly use appropriate verbs in their speech and writing. The focus of this lesson is on the proper use of helping verbs.
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Verbs
Review verbs with this resource. The presentation begins with a short exercise in which learners identify the verb in a series of sentences. Then, they discuss the use of verb groups and engage in a related activity. This is a great...
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Subject / Verb Agreement Worksheet 3
In this grammar worksheet, learners read and underline the correct verb form in parentheses in twenty sentences that make each one grammatically correct.
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Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
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Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar worksheet. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
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Modals
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Modal verbs such as could and would express possibility, as the installment of a compilation of informational handouts describes. A series of tables help explain the strength,...
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Gustar and Verbs like Gustar
Beginning Spanish pupils conjugate gustar and other like verbs to describe how much certain things are liked/ loved. This short activity would be a great exit card; simply hand one to each learner to assess their vocabulary...
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To Quote or Not to Quote
Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...
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The Catcher in the Rye: List-Group-Label Activity
Here's a list-group-label vocabulary activity for The Catcher in the Rye that will knock readers out, it really will! Groups sort, label, and define a list of words taken from Salinger’s novel. Complete directions for the activity, the...
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Analyzing a Central Idea: Carlotta’s Journey to Justice
Verbs are deceptive and like to disguise themselves. Young linguists identify verbals, specifically gerunds, infinitives, and participles when analyzing the third stage of Carlotta's journey in the novel A Mighty Long Way. Bridge...
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Active and Passive Voice: Finding Examples Online
Incorporate technological fluency with a search for examples of active and passive voice in online resources. Discuss how use of active or passive voice influences mood or tone and contributes to author's purpose. List of...
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Identify Correct Forms of Nouns, Pronouns and Verbs
Fifth graders review what nouns, pronouns and verbs are though grammar games. In this grammar lesson, 5th graders identify proper and common nouns, singular and plural nouns and verb agreement with nouns. Students make an original slide...
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Verb Review 1 (Mixed Including Passive)
Cut this sheet in two, and provide each learner with two days worth of bell-ringer activities. English language learners (or those studying English grammar) complete a short activity that has them complete a paragraph using the passive...
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Collective Nouns and Verb Agreement Practice
Break down subject and verb agreement with this exercise. This activity only deals with present tense verbs and collective nouns. Pupils learn how to make the verb of a sentence agree with the collective noun by reading sentences and,...
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First Conditional Verbs
Helpful as a print-out or electronic activity, this verb tense activity prompts middle and high schoolers to fill in 20 missing first conditional verbs in sentences. They can check their answers and receive hints. The activity would be a...
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The Verbs Have, Do, and Go
Using this simple activity could be a good way for your youngsters to practice using the verbs have, do, and go. By filling in the answers to the 12 questions, learners identify the correct verb.
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Tense Shift
Using the correct verb tense can be difficult for students. This ten-question activity requires students to identify the correct word for use in each sentence.
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Language Arts: Bringing Verbs to Life
Kindergarteners create action words collections to use in their own writing projects. After listening to several books, they select action verbs to dramatize and take digital photographs of their acting. Once the photos are printed, they...
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Three Little Pigs: Verbs
The story of the Three Little Pigs is a classic. Prep your special education class for a telling of this tale by previewing verbs commonly found in the story. Each page of this printable resource include the verb and an image showing the...
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Action or Being?--Which Verb Do I Use?
In this verbs worksheet, students read and determine if the verbs in 7 sentences are action or state-of-being verbs and write the 4 state-of-being and action verbs learned on the lines provided. Students underline the verbs in 8...