Washington State University
Washington State University: Common Errors
Do you say or write "exscape" when you should say "escape"? This webpage is from the Common Errors in English website. If you think other people's language mistakes are sometimes funny, you might enjoy reading the ways people have...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parentheses
This lesson introduces parentheses and how they are used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Garden of Phrases
This tutorial provides rules, explanations, and examples for noun phrases, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, absolute phrases, gerund phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Also includes an interactive quiz....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Phrases
A screencast lesson [3:38] defining a phrase, introducing different types of phrases, and explaining how to recognize phrases within sentences.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Noun & Verb Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides definitions and examples of noun and verb phrases and how they are used in sentences.
University of Calgary
The Basic Elements of English: Phrase Identification
This section of an online grammar guide provides a definition and examples of phrases, as well as information and an interactive exercise on distinguishing types of phrases and clauses. It offers links to various types of phrases and...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Words
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory elements. Numerous examples of commas after introductory phrases, introductory clauses, and introductory transitions are provided in this resource.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Knowing the Basics of Grammar
This grammar tutorial for college students features help on verb agreement, the use of semicolons, sentence structure, and more.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Building Phrases
This discussion on the function of phrases includes a section on verb phrases, noun phrases, noun phrases used as verbals, adjective phrases, and adverb phrases.
Other
Meredith Grammar Review: Clauses & Phrases
This online grammar guide provides instructions and examples on punctuating combinations of phrases and clauses. It also provides interactive exercises throughout the chapter.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas After Introductions
This lesson from Purdue's Online Writing Lab provides a definition of phrase and instructions on how to punctuate different types of introductory phrases. There is also a link to an exercise on this topic.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: Building Phrases
This online grammar guide defines phrases, how they are different from clauses, and how to use them in sentences.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Phrases and Clauses
Students will learn about the function of phrases and clauses and their function in specific sentences. Choose test mode or game mode.
Other
The Phrase Finder: Home Page
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it.
Other
The Phrase Finder: Home Page
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d...
University of Calgary
Univ. Of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Phrase Functions
This section of an online grammar guide provides information on how different types of phrases can function in a sentence. It also offers an interactive exercise for identifying phrase functions.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying different types of phrases.
University of Calgary
Basic Elements of English: Appositive & Absolute Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides definitions, examples, and an interactive exercise on identifying appositive and absolute phrases. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Recognize a Phrase
A phrase is a group of related words that does not include both a subject and a verb. It only has one or the other! [0:39]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions indicate the location of a thing to another thing across time or space. Prepositional phrases contain a preposition and its object. [0:44]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Phrases and Clauses
Learn to spot the differences between phrases and clauses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Common Expressions: Easy
Can you identify which prepositions to use for these common expressions?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrase and Clause Placement
Choose the best placement for the phrase or clause in the sentences provided!
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrases
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of phrase, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase. It also provides a brief description of how phrases...