Radford University
Translating and Evaluating Cell Phone Plans
Translate phone plans to algebraic expressions. Pupils review translating verbal phrases to algebraic expressions by filling out graphic organizers and completing matching activities. Using a fictitious cell phone company, they create...
University of Minnesota
Tell Me About It
Have you ever tried following confusing or incomplete directions? In a hands-on experiment, partners give and follow directions to build a structure. Scholars apply their years of experience taking instructions to prove they know...
Do2Learn
"I Have a Question..." Communication Board
Support nonverbal communication with a communications boards that features 20 pictures that answer questions such as How are you?, Why?, Who are you?, and more.
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Quadratic Equations — What We Know
Everything you could possibly want to know about quadratic equations, all in one resource. Instructors demonstrate how to translate between different forms of quadratics (equation, table of values, graph, verbal description) and finding...
Curated OER
Phrases and Clauses
Clarify the different types of phrases and clauses that young writers can use to vary their sentence structure. A helpful slideshow presentation encourages your class to fix sentences by adding more interesting phrases and clauses,...
Curated OER
Verbal (and other) Phrases
Recognize the tense used in each sentence. This online resource requires learners to select a verb tense from the choices presented. There are 10 sentences to work with, and the answer pops up immediately after a selection is made.
Curated OER
Worksheet on Diagramming Gerunds
Though your eighth graders might not love diagramming gerunds, they will be better at it after completing this worksheet. Three sentences allow them to identify and diagram the gerunds and gerund phrases. The format of this activity...
Curated OER
What Are They Doing?
In this sorting cut and paste worksheet, students cut out 6 pictures of children engaged in household tasks. They paste these pictures in a house shaped puzzle, matching them to the correct verb phrase, ie, "washing the dishes."
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Phrasal Verbs
In this quiz, students match phrasal verbs in one column with sentences that could contain those verbs in another column by typing the number of the sentence that fits the phrase in the box provided. Note that the phrasal verb could be...
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbals
This entry defines verbals, gerunds, participles, and infinitives; discusses each their different functions in sentences, and provides examples of each.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Phrases: Prepositional and Verbal
This site offers links to quizzes/exercises covering Prepositional and Verbal Phrases including participials, gerunds, and infinitives.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbals: The Basics
This site defines verbals and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to verbal identification.
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...