Curated OER
Subject-Verb Agreement
Perfect for a middle school classroom, this two-page reference guide introduces subject-verb agreement and gives 10 specific explanations and examples. Then, independently, attempt the 15 sentences that follow. Learners must select the...
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Clauses: Building Blocks for Sentences
Colorfully animated and packed with engaging examples, this PowerPoint encourages to employ clauses to create a variety of sentence structures. Peer editing of sample paragraphs would provide an opportunity for guided practice with...
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Variations of the Adjective Clause: Lesson 15
Help your students to vary their sentence structure with this presenation, which teaches them to use relative pronouns and adjective clauses to change the order of their sentences. The presentation details different ways to write the...
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Adjective Clauses
Practice identifying dependent adjective clauses with your class. Before providing this basic activity, make sure that your pupils are familiar with the grammatical terms dependent clause, adjective, and adjective clause. Once class...
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Adjective Clause Quiz
In this adjective clause worksheet, students choose who, whom, or which to complete the 12 sentences. In the last 8 sentences students write an S if which or that is the subject of the adjective clause and O if which or that is the...
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Pronoun Relative
A fabulous description of what pronouns are and how they are used is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students review usage facts and demonstrate proper usage. They answer 16 questions, and the answers appear at the end of the...
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Adjective Clauses Where/Which
In this adjective clause learning exercise, students find what is wrong with the 5 sentences and fix them. They then use the adjective clause to describe the object and subject and to complete 8 sentences.
Curated OER
The Functions of Clauses
In this clauses activity, students choose the clause in bold that completes each sentence. Students check their answer to complete the online quiz. Students complete 10 examples.
McGraw Hill
Combining Sentences Using Subordination
In this sentence combining worksheet, students combine sentences using subordinating clauses. Students use adjective clauses, adverb clauses, or noun clauses to combine the sentences.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Sass: Sentence Structure [Pdf]
This online writing guide defines independent and dependent clauses and explains how dependent clauses are used in sentences. With examples. [PDF]
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Adjective Clause
Notes and examples explaining how to recognize an adjective clause, how to punctuate it correctly, and how to avoid writing it as a sentence fragment.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Noun Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a noun phrase in the context of a sentence.
Other
Bowdoin: Review of Uses of the Subjunctive
Review the uses of the subjunctive and see examples of each use in English and Spanish.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Adjective & Adverb Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of adjective clauses and adverb clauses.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Clauses in Object Position
Four sets of two sentences that students are asked to combine by creating adjective clauses. Hints are available and possible correct answers are provided for students to check their work. A percentage score is tallied throughout the...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Clauses 1
An interactive exercise consisting on one example and six questions. Students look at the example and then complete each question by correctly combining two sentences while using an adjective clause. Students can check their answers...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Clauses
This online grammar guide provides a definition of clauses and how they function in sentences.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Adjective Clauses
Defines and provides examples of adjective clauses (defining and nondefining or restrictive and nonrestrictive). Link to exercises.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Fantastic Pictures
Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Young scholars have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Study Zone: Using Relative Pronouns
An exercise with five sentences containing adjective clauses. Students choose the correct relative pronoun to introduce the adjective clause in each sentence. Correct answers are identified, and students have the opportunity to try again...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).
English Plus+
Subordinate Clause
Definition of subordinate (dependent) clause. Links to complete glossary.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Relative Clause
The section of this site dedicated to the relative clause provides the user with skills to be able to recognize relative clauses through a list of relative pronouns and relative adjectives along with sample sentences and examples.
English Zone
English Zone: Formal Adjective Clauses Exercise 30
A ten-question exercise with each question consisting of a pair of clauses. Students are asked to combine the two clauses into one complete sentence by using the second clause to create an adjective clause. Students can check their...