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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Common Verb and Preposition Combinations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provide numerous examples of common combinations of verbs and prepositions.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Unnecessary Preposition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains that changes in usage over time makes the use of prepostions in certain instances unnecessary. While they are not technically incorrect, they lead to wordiness and should not be used. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Ending a Sentence With a Preposition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains when it is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition and when it is not.
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Website
Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
Students and teachers can find quizzes, vocabulary word search puzzles and self-tests for a variety of grammar topics: adjectives, adverbs, am -is or are, can and could, colors, countries and languages, and more. You can also find...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with prepositions.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Prepositions of Direction

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation with examples of prepositions that describe direction.
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Other

Spanish in Texas: Spanish Grammar in Context Introduction to Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th
This Spanish language reference clarifies information about prepositions and the rules associated with prepositions. A link to common prepositions is included.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar: Sentence Components

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on sentence components. It provides a slideshow with each of the eight parts of speech plus articles; it defines each and gives examples using them in sentences. It also offers the lyrics to "The Grammar Song" in...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech using 6 slideshow presentations. The first lists the 8 parts of speech and their functions; the next five discuss nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions individually. These...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prepositional Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on prepositional phrases; it defines them and discusses their functions. It explains the purpose, role, location, and construction of prepositional phrases.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Recognizing Prepositional Pharases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on prepositional phrases and their modifiers. It offers a video lesson including a list of common prepositions and how to punctuate prepositional phrases at the beginning and end of sentences. Real Player is required.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces prepositions and their role. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [2:58] and review questions over the lesson's content.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

Hyper Grammar: The Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial site offers a thorough discussion of the various parts of speech.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Other Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. It discusses the types of conjunctions and their uses, some prepositions and their uses including ending a sentence with a preposition, and definite and...
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Ending Sentences With Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read this tutorial to find out about ending sentences with prepositions, how to correct the problem, and times when it seems that sentences end in prepostions, but that really isn't the case. (Hint--when using a phrasal verb.)
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Other

English Made in Brazil: "To" & "For" Comparisons

For Students 9th - 10th
Help for Portuguese speakers learning English as a second language who tend to misuse the prepositions "to" and "for." This page clarifies usage of these prepositions and illustrates proper use with many examples and common expressions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Meet the Preposition With Pictures

For Students 4th - 6th
Complete each sentence by choosing the correct preposition to complete each sentence so that it matches the picture provided.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Basic Prepositions

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This site explains the various uses for "in," "on," and "at" in phrases referring to transportation, time, and communications (TV, radio, etc.). Also links to a practice exercise.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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Education.com

Education.com: L.4.1.e Worksheets: Form and Use Prepositional Phrases

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 8 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.1.E: Form and Use Prepositional Phrases.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: The Preposition Factory

For Students K Standards
This interactive lesson requires students to help builders with developing clear and descriptive sentences. Students will learn about nouns, verbs, and prepositions. Students must click on sight words and pictures that answer prompts...
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Other

Review and Practice: Por and Para

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows the user to review the uses of the prepositions por and para. After the student reviews the uses, he may practice the uses with the interactive review.
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

College Claparede: English Exercises Online: Adjectives & Prepositions2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an interactive English cloze-style exercise using adjectives and prepositions. It offers hints, allows corrections, shows the correct answers, and provides a percentage score. It is part of an extensive extensive interactive...
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

College Claparede: English Exercises Online: Adjectives & Prepositions1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive English cloze-style exercise using adjectives and prepositions is the content of this site. It offers hints, allows corrections, shows the correct answers, and provides a percentage score. It is part of an extensive...