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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Verb Aspect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose the simple aspect of the verb!
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Progressive Perfect Verb Aspect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If an action has been ongoing for some time, or was once ongoing and has since completed, we say it's in the progressive perfect aspect! Test your knowledge of this grammatical aspect.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Progressive Verb Aspect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When something is ongoing, we say that it's in the 'progressive' or 'continuous' aspect. Test your knowledge of this grammatical aspect!
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Handout
Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Check this brief explanation of how to tell the difference between lay, a transitive verb, and lie an intransitive verb, and use them properly in English grammar.
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Handout
Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.
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Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Nice Properties of Auxiliaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has information on the four properties of auxiliary verbs.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Confusing Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eighty-two questions to test your knowledge of verbs whose meanings are often confused. You choose the correct answer and, if you're correct, the next question is displayed. If you're wrong, the website lets you know immediately by...
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Prepositions Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides a ten question preposition practice activity. Students are asked to fill in the missing preposition in a complete sentence. Answers are provided without detailed explanations.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Den Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar list of common prepositions that are linked to examples.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Identifying Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Identifying and understanding verbs is discussed at this site. Word function, action verbs, linking verbs, and verbs that have more than one part are included.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Future Tense

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
General discussion of how future tense verbs work in language with more specific information about English, Latin, French, and Spanish. Includes examples throughout and some links to additional information near the bottom.
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Other

Weber State University: Misused Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fun look at the wrong way to use the English language; includes many examples.
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Other

Welsh Course Glossary of Grammatical Terms: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An online course site aimed at teaching Welsh to native English speakers includes a glossary of grammatical terms. The entry for "phrase" explains how phrases function in sentences.
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Other

Esl Blues: Troubleshooting: Nonprogressive Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A troubleshooting list of some commonly mistaken nonprogressive verb forms and thier uses.
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Other

Esl Verbs: Present Simple Affirmative

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Troublesome verb forms using the present simple affirmative for ESL speakers/writers. Examples of the incorrect use of the verb along with corrected form.
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Other

Esl Verbs: Present Simple Negative

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Examples of some troublesome verb forms using the present simple negative.
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Other

Esl Verbs: Present Simple Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has examples of some common mistakes when forming questions using the present simple verb tense. The correct form is given along with some of the more common errors.
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Other

Mountain View Middle School: The Suffixes Able and Ible [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules, examples, word lists, and practice exercises designed to teach the proper use of -ible and -able suffixes.
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Handout
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Grammar Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A glossary of grammar and linguistic terms along with definitions, example sentences, and links to additional information.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Changing Parts of Speech: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This packet discusses how to change words from one part of speech to another by adding suffixes. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes, L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Suffixes and Their Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces common suffixes and their meanings.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Verb Tenses: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A slideshow introducing the main English verb tenses. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Verb Tenses."
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Other

Howto Spell: When Do We Use Ible and When Do We Use Able Endings?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A video lesson [6:55] followed by a written explanation of when to use the -ible and -able suffixes. A list of commonly used words with each suffix is also provided. Finally, practice these new skills with a ten-question test.