Curated OER
The Gerund Phrase
Do your young grammarians need extra practice identifying gerund phrases? After reading a short definition and studying examples, learners underline the gerund phrases in 20 sentences. This worksheet could be used as the basis of a...
Curated OER
Restating Infinitive Phrases
In this infinitive phrases worksheet, students change the sentence around so that the infinitive phrase is now a gerund phrase. Students complete 10 sentences.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an infinitive phrase, appositive, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, clause, or participial phrase.
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Gerund Phrase
This grammar tutorial for understanding the gerund phrase demonstrates how to use gerund phrases properly in sentences.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Phrase Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on phrases where the underlined group of words must be identified as either a prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, or infinitive phrase.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Possessives and Gerunds
A screencast lesson [5:41] explaining how possessive pronouns are used with gerunds and gerund phrases.
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
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...
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.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Gerund Phrases
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, but it has great information on the gerund phrase. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing gerund phrases.
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...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbals: Gerunds
This site defines gerunds as verbal phrases and provides several examples, but it also goes through several steps to gerund identification.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Phrase?
List the different types of phrases with examples and a fun exercise to try.