Grammatical Structure of Sentences- Subjects and Objects

Approach run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments with humor. The activity is made up of two exercises, which are, in turn, each made up of a series of somewhat silly sentences that need punctuation help. For the first...

Direct object? Indirect object? Which is which and what do they do? Clear up confusion with a pair of exercises designed to help pupils identify and write both direct and indirect objects. Since the exercises are quick, this would work...

Pronouns are the name of the game with this informative, six-page packet. The first three pages detail different types of pronouns like subject pronouns, object pronouns, etc. Then, three pages of practice follow, encouraging grammarians...

Help your kids polish their writing skills. First, they study sentences so they can easily identify sentence fragments and how to fix them. The same type of explanation is provided for run-on sentences. After this guided practice...

Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...

Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.

Use this straightforward presentation as a basic guide to your grammar unit. With explanations of the parts of a simple sentence (subject, verb, direct object), the slideshow is a good way to reinforce students' prior knowledge about...

Review (or introduce) the structure of simple sentences with this presentation. It covers linking verbs, action verbs, subject complements, and how they all come together to form complete sentences. Slides 44-53 include a practice activity.

Involve your readers in finding works of literary genius. Have each individual write down compelling sentences that they read or hear, whether in a newspaper, advertisement, book, movie, song, or any other place! Once each person has a...

How can the rhetorical structure of an editorial help to develop its argument? Use this New York Times editorial to emphasize the importance of structure in a piece of informational text. Adolescent writers then use the editorial as a...