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Rhl School: English Basics: Real Sentences
How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? This resource features examples of complete and incomplete sentences that students can identify and fix.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Confused and Misused Words and Phrases Power Point
A PowerPoint slide reviewing the proper usage of commonly confused and misused words. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Adjectives and Adverbs
A quiz to assess student understanding of adjectives and adverbs is included on this site.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Writing
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
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English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
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Grammarly Blog: Common Prepositions
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides a list of prepositions.
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Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
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Grammarly Blog: Articles
This page explains what articles are including the definite article "the" and the indefinite articles "a" and "an" and provides examples of their use and exceptions for the use of "a" and "an". It explains the rules for the uses of...
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Grammarly Blog: Geographical Use of Definite Article The
This page provides rules for when to use and not use the article "the."
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Grammarly Blog: Sometime, Sometimes, and Some Time
An explanation with examples of using the words "sometime," "sometimes," and "some time" correctly in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
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Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
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English Grammar 101: Adverbs Modifying Verbs
Learn how adverbs modify verbs in this concise lesson. Practice what you learn with a quiz which gives immediate feedback.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Vivid Verbs W.5.3.d
This lesson plan engages students in analyzing word choices. Students will write descriptive paragraphs about interesting magazine pictures and ensure that they are using vivid words in their writings.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Using Transitions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Parts of Speech
Nice brief visual summary of the parts of speech - clear and concise - followed by an interactive practice quiz to reinforce concepts - great for ELL - has links to more in-depth explanations.
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Grammarly Blog: Blog: Adverbs: What Do Adverbs Modify?
This blog focuses on adverbs, including what they modify, how to find them in sentences, degrees of adverbs, and examples of each.
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Grammarly Blog: Conjunctions
This page focuses on conjunctions including what conjunctions are; the types of conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating; how to start sentences with conjunctions, examples of each of the above, and lists for each type...
University of North Carolina
Articles: The Writing Center
What is an article? Explore the world of articles when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers can brush up on their knowledge of these tiny but important words.
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Tutorial World: Primary 4 English
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for fourth-grade language arts students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
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Grammarly Blog: Adjectives and Adverbs What's the Difference?
This blog article focuses on adjectives and adverbs including their purpose and the confusion between them. It offers links pertaining to adjective and adverb use and misuse.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 1: Their, There, and They're
Complete these 20 sentences by choosing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 2: Their, There, and They're
Complete these 20 sentences by typing the correct form of their, there, and they're.