Curated OER
Grammar Bytes PowerPoint Presentation: Parallel Structure
When preparing students for standardized tests, this presentation about parallel structure could be a great way to review. Using concrete examples, and providing detailed explanations, students could use this as an independent review.
Pimsleur
Culinary Culture
Italian culture and italian food go together. Have small groups find out all about food-related culture through research and translation. Class members conduct online research, create glossaries, find and translate recipes for a class...
Other
Using English: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
A comprehensive A-Z index of grammar terms with explanations and examples. Each entry provides links to activities and other resources available on the site for more practice on that aspect of grammar. Suggested activities are often...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Present Progressive
This explanation of the present progressive tense includes stem-changing present participles and those that involve spelling changes. Examples illustrate this grammar principle and a test assesses student mastery of the content.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify participles in the context of sentences.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify participles in the context of sentences.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Elementary Rules of Usage
Passage from William Strunk's "Elements of Style" explains how the placement of a participial phrase determines if it refers to the subject of the sentence. Examples.
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.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Past Participle
View pictures and answer the questions relating to the picture in either the present perfect tense or using the past participle as an adjective. Click the "?" if you are uncertain about an answer.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Progressive Tense
Comprehensive online practice from Colby College is available for the present progressive tense. Regular, irregular, and stem-changing participles are included in this exercise. Utilize this self-grading online worksheet to help improve...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: The Writing Center: Verbals
After a discussion and explanation of verbals in general, this site specifically discusses the gerund and the participle (with a link to the infinitive) and also provides examples of each.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Wrong Participle
An explanation with examples of using participles correctly in sentences.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Verbal Practice Exercise
This is a twenty-question worksheet with multiple choice answers about identifying the correct type of verbal that is used in a sentence (gerund, participle, infinitive). Answers are available through a link at the bottom.
Other
Review and Practice: Past Participle
This site reviews the uses and the formation of the past participle in Spanish. After this review, the user may choose to complete practice activities to test comprehension.
Language Guide
Language Guide: El Gerundio
A very brief explanation of how to form the present participle for ar/er/ir verbs and later form the present progressive tense with the participle.
Other
Jefferson County School Dist.: Irregular & Helping Verbs
This site has an online slide show offers a drill on forming irregular verbs. One slide of 63 includes information on helping verbs. Last slide has links to some online practice for irregular verbs.
Other
University of North Carolina at Pembroke: Adjectivals
This page from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke provides instructions and examples for using different types of phrases (prepositional, appositive, and participial) as adjectives in sentences.