Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding New Vocabulary Within Context
This lesson focuses on ways to understand new vocabulary words in context. It provides an introduction with examples, information about how our language changes and how words get into the dictionary, and how to look outside the word to...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Identifying Sentence Parts
The Guide to Grammar and Writing at this site provides an exercise of eight sentences where each word is hyperlinked to identify its role as a part of the sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts
This site from Capital Community College Foundation provides all the different parts of speech and their definitions. It also shows word functions and their use.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositional Phrase
Defines and provides examples of seven different types of phrases. The following types of phrases are included: absolute, appositive, gerund, infinitive, noun, participial, and prepositional. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases
In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, I
In this seven question quiz, students are given a sentence and asked a question about parts of the sentence, such as what is the subject of the sentence, or what is the underlined part of the sentence called. They are to select from the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, Ii
This 8 question quiz on sentences presents a sentence and asks students questions about its structure. Java is required.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: College Writing Ctr at Meramec: Prepositional Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF demonstrates how to determine the subject and the verb in sentences with prepositional phrases and provides a list of the most common prepositions used in prepositional phrases.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguish Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 3
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 4
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 5
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Word Splash Sentences [Pdf]
In this PDF comparison/contrast lesson plan, students learn a word splash writing activity which asks students to craft meaningful sentences that utilize content vocabulary words. Students-alone or in groups-examine a collection of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a participial phrase in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.